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legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) spake the secret code
Looks like string_ref is really close to what I was asking for; I'm going to see if I can rework that gist with string_ref.
Gist updated to use boost::string_ref:
https://gist.github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/7b67968bd93fbd4f9dbb
So string_ref took over the place of the string_chain_segment that I
had before.
Now the question remains... is there something that already exists
that provides a string_view from a vector of string_ref's?
As near as I can tell, string_view is a class defined in namespace std
that provides a string-like interface over a single char* string. I'm
looking to provide an abstraction over a vector