C++: The advantages of Seq, and the demerits of std::string const&

[ingve]

http://denisbider.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-virtues-of-seq-and-demerits-of.html

[Kristine1975]

LLVM implements this as StringRef. It has been proposed for inclusion into the C++ Standard as string_view: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n392...

[al2o3cr]

Interesting to note that the Seq type described is identical in layout and intent to Rust's "slices".

[arthursilva → al2o3cr]

It's a very useful thing in Rust so it should be the same in C++, without the ownership constraints though it'll very unsafe.