> On Jan 22, 2022, at 11:28 PM, Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Tony V E wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 1:40 PM Daveed Vandevoorde via SG7
>> <sg7_at_[hidden] <mailto:sg7_at_[hidden]> > wrote:
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>> How about specifying that all string_view results from reflection
>> functions (there aren’t that many) have a null-terminated data()?
>> E,g,:
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>> auto len = std::strlen(name_of(^S).data()); // Okay and as intuitively
>> expected.
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>> Daveed
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>> Will this lead to invalid expectations regarding string_views? Sometimes strlen
>> works on string_views, sometimes it doesn't?
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> Hence Barry's allusion to http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2019/p1402r0.pdf.

Oh, _that_’s what zstring_view referred to :-)

>
> I still have no idea why people object so strongly to it.

(I have no opinion in favor/against it, but it seems reasonable on the face of it.)

 Daveed