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[Ecstatic Coder]

On Thursday, 26 July 2018 at 06:04:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 21:16:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/24/2018 4:53 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>>>      str = str1 + " " + str2;
>>
>> But you have to be careful how it is written:
>>
>>     str = "hello" + "world";
>>     str = "hello" + "world" + str1;
>>
>> don't work, etc.
>
> Well, like everything in C++, there is always a way.
>
>      str = "hello"s + "world";
>      str = "hello"s + "world" + str1;
>
> Spot the difference. :)

It's just synctactic sugar for a constructed string. You can't 
even use C++14 string constants to initialize a string view, or 
you have a dangling pointer, as it's NOT a true constant. 
Ridiculous...