Re: [boost] Re: string algorithms review

From: Pavol Droba (droba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-20 01:33:42

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:53:13AM +0200, Martin Wille wrote:

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> >A boost::string that derived from std::string and added all the 
> >_inplace() functions would be nice.
> 
> 
> How about inplace(some_string).trim()?
> 
> The inplace-view could also be used for other containers than
> std::string.
> 

This is not a good direction of thinking. Any packing of algorithms into
one huge class is a big flaw in the library design.
It is not flexible, dissallows extensibility and it is hard to maintain ...

Regards,

Pavol