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

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-06 10:58:45

On Saturday, October 6, 2001, at 11:47  AM, Peter Dimov wrote:

> Don't get me wrong; I value the ability to not include <everything>. 
> But why
> not simply add the overload to the standard, instead of trying to 
> somehow
> specify that
>
> void f(std::string const &);
>
> f("fish");
>
> is different than
>
> f(std::string("fish"));
>
> when in fact the two are equivalent.

I would be behind such a proposal 110%!  (that's 110 factorial ;-) )

-Howard