Why is there no implicit conversion from std::string_view to std::string?
The problem is that std::string_view -> std::string makes a copy of the underlying memory, complete with heap allocation, whereas the implicit std::string -> std::string_view does not. If you’ve bothered to use a std::string_view in the first place then you obviously care about copies, so you don’t want one to happen implicitly. Consider this example: void … Read more