DIP 1014

[Mike Parker]

On Sunday, 30 September 2018 at 04:34:20 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Who knows about DIP 1014? (struct move hook)
> Is it well received? Is it likely to be accepted soon?
>
> I'm working on the std::string binding, it's almost finished... 
> but
> then I hit a brick wall.
> GNU's std::string implementation stores an interior pointer! >_<
>
> No other implementation does this. It's a really bad 
> implementation actually, quite inefficient. It could make 
> better use of its space for small-strings if it wasn't wasting 
> 8-bytes for an interior pointer to a small string buffer...
>
> Anyway, I'm blocked until this DIP is accepted; so, is it 
> looking promising?

It's pending a decision from Walter & Andrei, which I hope to 
hear soon.