Re: [boost] path::leaf()

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-21 13:38:37

At 08:31 PM 8/19/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
 >
 >It surprised me a bit that leaf returns a string instead of a path.

The rule isn't entirely obvious. If a decomposition function can possibly 
return more that one element, it is returned as type path. If at most a 
single element is returned, the return type is std::string.

 >Shouldn't
 >
 >   "foo/bar"/p.leaf()
 >
 >work?

Yes, via the automatic conversion. I just added a test case to path_test to 
verify that. Yes, it does work. I expect there would have been scads of bug 
reports if it didn't work.

--Beman