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		GoblinSlayer on March 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ creator rebuts White House warning They are hard to use when you absolutely want to use them the hard way, std::span can provide you lots of safety, but people don't use available tools.

pjmlp on March 19, 2024 [–]

It provides none, unless you are using C++26 compiled with hardned standard library mode.

If you care about safety use gsl::span instead.

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