[Development] RFC: Proposal for a semi-radical change in Qt APIs taking strings

[Olivier Goffart]

On Tuesday 13. October 2015 22:46:36 Marc Mutz wrote:
> I would therefore like to propose to abandon QString for new API (and over
> time phase it out of existing API), and only provide (const QChar*, size_t)
> as the most general form. I would propose to package the two into a class,
> called - you guessed it - QStringView.

+1

I think we indeed need QStringView, QByteArrayView and even QVectorView<T>.

And functions that take strings without taking ownership of them (i.e: not 
setters) should use that.

-- 
Olivier 

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