Re: [boost] substring (was ranges)

From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-13 07:34:44

>Seems like a nice thing to do. But I worry that a substring that knows how
>to act as a read-only string is a bit fragile because it's easy to forget
>that it becomes invalid if the string it's based on is deleted, and
there's
>no necessary connection between the lifetime of these objects.

I know, and I worry about it.  However the same issue exists with pairs of
iterators/ranges/views in general.  I don't know what the right answer is.

- John Maddock
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