[boost] Re: string conversion methods

From: Russell Hind (rhind_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-07 03:37:06

Jeff Garland wrote:
> 
> In date-time there are several 'to_string' functions that provide
> different ouput formats so a single 'str()' method isn't going
> to be enough.  As for c_str(), you can use this once you have 
> std::string.  From my view there is no point in trying to force
> fit this functionality into an inadequate interface.  Finally,
> by keeping these as free functions dates and times can be used 
> without including I/O headers which the 'to_string' functions 
> use.
> 

I'm not saying replace all the XXXX_string methods with a str() but 
jshould we have

str()
native_file_str()
to_simple_str()

or

string()
native_file_string()
to_simple_string()

just to commonise things.

Filesystem has a string() method.  stringstreams use str().  I also 
agree that boost libraries don't need a c_str() method since this can 
come from the string() (or str()) method.

Thanks

Russell