Re: [boost] Re: string algorithms review

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-20 07:42:56

At 02:13 AM 10/20/2003, Pavol Droba wrote:

 >In case that these arguments are not convincing enough, I would vote 
adding
 >_inplace to mutating variants, and removing _copy. But keep in mind, that
 >such a convention would lead unexperienced programmers to use less
 >efficient variants of algorithms.

With inexperienced programmers, my concern is reducing the chance of error, 
not a concern over efficiency.

A concern over efficiency would arise if experienced programmers were 
prevented from using efficient solutions.

--Beman