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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 15 October 2015 02:22:50 Marc Mutz wrote:
> 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

Ah, right. The mutable pointer is the one missing...
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