On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Jeff Muizelaar <jmuizel...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Jonathan Watt <jw...@jwatt.org> wrote: >>> For those who are interested in this, there's a bug to consider integrating >>> the Guidelines Support Library (GSL) into the tree: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208262 >> >> This bug appears to have stalled. >> >> What should my expectations be regarding getting an equivalent of (at >> least single-dimensional) GSL span<T> (formerly array_view<T>; >> conceptually Rust's slice) into MFBT? > > Something like this already exits: mfbt/Range.h
And we also have https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/src/ArrayView.h whose comments say to prefer Range. ArrayView as well as GSL span use pointer and length while Range uses pointer and pointer past end. Are we happy enough with Range to the point where Range should be promoted in the codebase where the Core Guidelines would recommend span? (What to call it is, of course, a total bikeshed, but when the Core Guidelines are happening near the C++ standardization source of authority, it seems rather NIH-y to call it something other than "span" even if there are still compiler compat reasons [are there?] not to use Microsoft's span.h outright.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
