Re: [boost] [Boost Review] Property Tree Library

From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-20 07:16:43

Ivan Vecerina wrote:
> "Sebastian Redl" <sebastian.redl_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:44463E63.6030703_at_getdesigned.at...
>> Marcin Kalicinski wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed. I thought about it before, and came to a conclusion that
>>> the best way to implement it is to use preprocessor constant to
>>> allow user specify default separator, e.g.
>>> BOOST_PROPERTY_TREE_SEPARATOR.
>>>
>>>
>> I disagree. I think this should be a runtime per-tree setting, not
>> something set at compile time. I also think it would be quite
>> trivial to do.
>
> Why do you care to have this as a per-tree setting ???
>
> So now, say that someone writes a library function to read a ptree
> into a  struct EmployeeInfo.  Unless this function explicitly
> specifies the separator at every call, it will fail if you pass
> it a tree that is configured to use a different separator ?
>
> I'd much rather have a universal default ( . or / ), guaranteed,
> that I can use in all my "item paths".
> And maybe, if there is a reason to think that it will be useful,
> the ability to specify a custom separator for a call. But
> what is the point?

What if the keys contain '.' or '/'?

Jeff Flinn