[lldb-dev] LLDB Evolution - Final Form

[Zachary Turner via lldb-dev]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:51 PM Greg Clayton <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:

>
> > On Sep 20, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Sep 20, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Occasionally (and in my experience *very* occasionally), you need to
> treat "" as different from null.
>
> doesn't StringRef store an actual pointer to ""? This would mean
> StringRef::data() would return non null, but StringRef::size() would return
> 0. So I believe that isn't a problem with StringRef
>

Right, it's only a problem when you need to write a function that returns
or accepts a string, and null has to be treated differently than empty.  As
Mehdi said, one option is an Optional<StringRef>, although I admit that
there are times where pointers would still be more convenient.  They're
still used in some places in llvm and clang for example, just not nearly as
often as StringRef.
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