On Tuesday 20 October 2015 08:49:17 André Somers wrote: > Op 19-10-2015 om 17:54 schreef Thiago Macieira: > > First of all, QStringRef keeps a pointer to the original QString, so it > > isn't as fragile as QStringView. In fact, during the development of the > > XML stream classes, there was a QSubString class that did more or less > > what QStringView would do. It got replaced for a reason. > > Would you mind expanding on that a bit? I would think that the XML > stream classes would be a natural example to use a string view, but it > seems that such a thing was tried and dragons were uncovered... Perhaps > it would be good to share a war story here so we won't run into those > same dragons again?
Wish that I could. I wasn't around that time. I know this happened because I used to pull the daily snapshots and commit to an svk repository (yes, svk!) to see the differences. That's how I spotted the QSubString class being added, then removed, then QStringRef showed up. Is there anyone still around who worked with Matthias on this back in 2006/2007? -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
