std::span is new, but I have seen some custom form of it in pretty much every codebase I've worked with for a very long time (and implemented some myself). Like it used be the case for std::string in older codebases.
Re:C++ audio mixing library design
by pencilguin on Monday October 17, 2022 @01:50PM
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string_view would definitely have been wrong.
std::span did not exist in the Standard at the time std::from_chars was adopted.
An overload that takes std::span would be easy, and harmless. But as std::from_chars is only ever used from within some other abstraction, any benefit would be minimal.
Why would string_view be wrong there?
Re:C++ audio mixing library design
by pencilguin on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:09PM
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Because, then, to parse out a number you would first need to get it into a string.
Even the standard library commits a similar sin with `from_chars` and not taking a `string_view`.