[Development] User-defined literals for QString (and QByteArray)

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 05/03/21 13:51, Andrei Golubev ha scritto:
> That said, QByteArray's ctor accepting char* is not explicit (which kind 
> of makes sense) and we have this ambiguity for f(QByteArray) and 
> f(QByteArrayView) I believe. But guessing that it's not expected that 
> QByteArrayView would be as popular as QStringView.

Sure, but this results in functions overloaded for QByteArray and const 
char *, not QByteArray and QByteArrayView -- see QByteArray's operators, 
qCompress, etc.

> Thus, QByteArray str = "hello" works fine, so maybe no need to introduce 
> a UDL for that class. OTOH, QString and QByteArray would have API 
> differences (in some sense) yet again (and there's QByteArrayLiteral).

But the UDL you proposed is for the non-allocating path, so

QByteArray b = "hello"_qba;

is different from

QByteArray b = "hello";


Cheers,
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