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

[Marc Mutz]

On Thursday 15 October 2015 00:27:14 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Way too much code would break if we did that because we allow people access
> to  the data pointer in QString and to iterate directly
> (std::{,w,u16}string don't allow that, which makes parsing them actually a
> lot more cumbersome).

Just chiming in to say: It does: 
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/data

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