[Development] QString and related changes for Qt 6

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 12 de maio de 2020 22:57:31 PDT Jaroslaw Kobus wrote:
> That's why I've mentioned the better option: aggregation: QStringView could
> be a member of QString. However, the downside would be that every time you
> want to call a const method for QString, you would need to first get access
> to the QStringView member. The advantage is that in this way you may easily
> integrate different interfaces inside one class.

This is more or less what we want to do. QString in Qt 6 is {begin, size, d} 
and QStringView has always been {begin, size}. So, yeah, it can be done.

The idea is indeed to offload the majority of the non-mutating methods to the 
same functions, from inline code. There's no reason to have both 
QString::indexOf and QStringView::indexOf entry points in the library.

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