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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday 18 October 2015 21:27:31 Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> That the proposal is that every single function currently taking a 
> QString should instead be changed to take a QStringView instead, unless 
> a few exceptional cases (for instance the function is used to store the 
> string somehow, plus other cases under discussion). Similar case for 
> return values. If that doesn't look like a radical change to you...

Return values must always be QString, never QStringView. Returning a view is 
like returning a reference and goes against Qt's library code policy.

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