On Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 19:07 Thiago Macieira <thiago_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Saturday, 17 August 2019 12:25:57 PDT Henri Sivonen wrote:
> > To the extent other programming languages that have encoding
> > conversion in their standard library, such as Java, focus on
> > contiguous buffers rather than iteration, it's worthwhile to study if
> > application developers really feel that something important is
> > missing.
>
> We were just discussing URLs in the cpplang Slack and that reminded me:
> there's exactly one in 10 years case that I've needed to decode a non-
> contiguous byte range and that's when parsing a URL.
>

Can you elaborate on this? Per spec, URL parsing doesn't invoke a decoder
but an encoder:
https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#query-state

Here's the corresponding code in Firefox using the span-oriented API that I
linked to in my previous email:
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/nsStandardURL.cpp#138
The span-oriented API works well here in my opinion, even though this case
is a more advanced used of the API that implement a custom replacement
behavior.


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