Re: [boost] vaguely related to: status of wchar_t support in filesystem::path?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-19 22:20:41

At 05:29 PM 2/19/2004, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote:

 >is there any chance that we'll see:
 >         basic_filebuf *basic_filebuf::open(std::string const&,
 >ios_base::open_mode);
 >and of course ...wstring... if the other is adopted?

A lot of people have asked for such overloads.

It is always hard to tell what might or might not be accepted, until there 
is a firm proposal in the form of a committee document. Sometimes killer 
arguments surface which torpedo seemingly innocuous proposals - you never 
know 'til you try.

The documents for next month's meeting should be available any day now. See 
if there is anything about the issue in the issues list or any proposals. 
If not propose it yourself.

If you can't come to C++ committee meetings, don't let that stop you. A 
number of critical portions of the Library TR were proposed by John Maddock 
or Peter Dimov, and neither of them has ever come to a committee meeting 
AFAIK. Look at past proposals and issues to see the form.

--Beman