On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 5:17 AM Tom Mason via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> I do think it's useful to use the one type.

I didn't say it couldn't be useful. But the ABI breakage it would
cause (adding more information to `string_view`, thus making it
bigger) is not worth it. And I would argue that the few cases where it
might be better to carry both a size and whether the string is
NUL-terminated aren't worth having any type carry around both of those
pieces of information. The tradeoff just isn't worth it.

Having a type dedicated to being specifically a view into a
NUL-terminated string solves most of the problems, and does so in a
way that makes it clear what your API needs.