> On 16 May 2025, at 21:45, Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On 5/16/25 12:12 PM, Hans Åberg via Std-Proposals wrote:
>>> On 16 May 2025, at 14:20, Jan Schultke via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P3695R0.html will be in the next mailing.
>>>
>>> It seems like people almost universally dislike this implicit conversion, and overall, deprecation has been received very positively. However, I'd still be interested in your thoughts on this.
>> One can have implicit conversions between the types std::string, std::u8string, and std::u32string, where std::u8string might guarantee valid UTF-8 sequences. Conversions from std::string would then throw exceptions for invalid UTF-8 sequences. No exceptions are needed for conversions between std::u8string and std::u32string.
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> Implicit conversions that involve potentially high performance costs are generally discouraged.

These are conversions that cannot be avoided, so it does not matter.