On Friday, 6 February 2026 17:51:13 Pacific Standard Time Henry Miller via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> Or perhaps we should open the bike-shed: do we want a _view here, or do we
> want something only somewhat similar but that allows other operations.

I'll repeat what I've said: that "something only somewhat similar" is
std::string. It's NUL-terminated and modifiable. If some API inserts a NUL in
the middle, that can be found via strlen and the string resized.

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