Re: [boost] basic_string interface generator

From: Igor Kholodov (C.JUMP_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-18 18:56:22

>Reece Dunn wrote: 
>>
>> Is there any interest in the ability to generate a 
basic_string compliant 
>> interface from a base set of functions in a similar 
way that the iterator 
>> adaptors work?
>
>While I don't have a present need for it, there has 
been
>discussion of various types of strings including 
ropes and small
>string optimized on the list.  A utility such as 
you've proposed
>would make writing them easier.
>

This would also benefit libraries designed 
specifically for STL strings. See, for example,
Common Text Transformation Library,
http://cttl.sourceforge.net/. Is there is a need for 
grammar-based STL string transformations?

Igor Kholodov
http://cttl.sourceforge.net/