Re: [boost] Re: Re: [string algo formal review]

From: Pavol Droba (droba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-26 12:21:20

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:07:47AM +1100, Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

[snip]
 

> > What I might considers is a kind of automatic conversion to an arbitrary
> > container.
> > Something like
> >
> > string str=range.copy();
> >
> > "Copy" would return a stub object which will have implicit conversion to
> > an arbitraty type.
> > ( using enable_if, it can restricted to containers only )
> 
> IMO, not a good idea. I think all these twist/hacks that must be made to the
> iterator_range<> says that
> it's not specialized enough. We need a substring.
> 

Actualy, I realized from our conversation, that the definition of a "string"
is very important, and should be clearly stated in the docs.

Thanks for reminding.

Regards,

Pavol