Re: [boost] regex design question

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-09-19 09:56:49

At 06:48 AM 9/19/2000 -0400, John Maddock wrote:

 > ...
 >
 >This leads on to another design question:
 >
 >Currently I have:
 >
 >template <class iterator, class Allocator, class charT, class traits, 
class
 >Allocator2>
 >bool regex_match(iterator first,
 >                 iterator last,
 >                 match_results<iterator, Allocator>& m,
 >                 const reg_expression<charT, traits, Allocator2>& e,
 >                 unsigned flags = match_default);
 >
 >But with a simplified match_results this can be changed to:
 >
 >template <class iterator, class Allocator, class charT, class traits, 
class
 >Allocator2>
 >match_results<iterator> regex_match(iterator first,
 >                 iterator last,
 >                 const reg_expression<charT, traits, Allocator2>& e,
 >                 unsigned flags = match_default);
 >
 >Which IMO makes for more readable code/easier usage. Again this kind of
 >change can only be made now while the interface is changing anyway (and I
 >should have brought it up before - apologies).

Well, you need to make the decision.  This (hopefully) isn't a 
design-by-committee exercise.  While interface simplification is always 
desirable, I don't have enough context to know what the cost is.

--Beman