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

[André Somers]

Op 20-10-2015 om 11:08 schreef Иван Комиссаров:
> Btw, isn't the QStringView is the same as Range<Container> 
> { Container::Iterator begin; Container::Iterator end; } ?
> Why we introduce only QStringView/QByteArrayView? Maybe we should 
> think about adding range API to all containers?
>
> Alexandrescus presentation about ranges: 
> http://www.slideshare.net/rawwell/iteratorsmustgo

More recent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFUXNMfaciE (Eric Niebler 
on CppCon)

But I think it is a bit early to start doing that, seeing that the whole 
idea is still in flux in the STL. I'm sure we don't want to end up with 
something incompatible (again), right? Also, a QStringView is more than 
"just" a range, as it supports all kinds of string-related API similar 
to QString, or so I will assume based on the similar proposal for 
std::string_view. (as presented in 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9gAaNRoon4)

André