[strings] Consistently use shorter forms of return types #6764

frederick-vs-ja · 2024-01-10T13:20:39Z

Currently, const_reference and const charT& are mixedly used in the return types of some functions in [strings] (same for non-const versions).

This PR consistently

spells the return types in the short aliased forms, as the shorter forms are clearer, and
aligns non-const and const overloads of basic_string::data, and
spells the shorter form for the type of basic_string_view::data_.

and a data member

frederick-vs-ja added 5 commits January 12, 2024 13:01

[basic.string.general] Use shorter forms of the return types

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[basic.string.general] Align both overloads of data

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[string.access] Use shorter forms of return types

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[string.view.template.general] Use shorter forms of return types

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and a data member

[string.view.access] Use shorter forms of return types

2c12baa

frederick-vs-ja force-pushed the string-return-reference branch from 3223f3d to 2c12baa Compare January 12, 2024 05:02

tkoeppe force-pushed the main branch from 89a9fb3 to 79eb180 Compare April 19, 2024 13:54

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