Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.25.0 build problems?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-04 15:11:12

----- Original Message -----
From: <williamkempf_at_[hidden]>
>
> There's the rub, though.  I never used "a name from the standard
> library" for which I did not "include a standard library header
> documented as providing that name".  The issue actually stems from
> calling the constructors with const char* parameters which need to be
> implicitly cast to the const std::string& type.  So I guess you could
> turn this around and claim that the standard has a defect in design,
> but I don't care to go that far.  I honestly think this is a QoI
> issue with STLPort.

Arguably. Is it better to break loudly when the user does something
nonportable, or to understand their intention and "just work"?

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