Roll our own qUtf8Printable()?

[Berthold Stoeger]

On Montag, 26. Februar 2018 02:33:58 CET Thiago Macieira wrote:

> > [Sidenote: There's a reason the C++-standard disallows reference counting
> > for its string class.]
> 
> There is, but this isn't it. The concern is the unexpected memory allocation
> when calling a non-const function. The standard banned reference counting
> by requiring a few of those functions to have constant time (O(1))
> operation, which can't be implemented if you need to allocate memory and
> memcpy.

That's how they do it, but certainly not the only reason why they do it. There 
are also concerns about thread safety and - I'm quite sure - code 
optimization.

But this should be of no concern to us - since we don't use std::string.

Berthold