> Well, then the rest of my email applies: what's the path toward making it modifiable?

Is there anything stopping you from making a copy?


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Subject: Re: [std-proposals] A draft for a std::arguments proposal

On Monday 14 October 2024 22:33:36 GMT-7 Jeremy Rifkin via Std-Proposals
wrote:
> > Is std::arguments modifiable?
>
> From the paper: "std::arguments is entirely read-only in order to not
> introduce dangers surrounding global mutable state."
>
> Jeremy

Well, then the rest of my email applies: what's the path toward making it
modifiable?

A forever-read-only std::arguments is dead-on-arrival for Qt. We *must* modify
the arguments and remove options that we've processed, so the applications
don't have to.

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