Re: [boost] Re: Formal review of "OutputFormatters"library beginstoday

From: John Torjo (john.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-14 02:28:26

Reece Dunn wrote:
> John Torjo wrote:
> 
>>>> I think one type of delimeter is enough (I assume you wholeheartidly 
>>>> disagree with this).
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't wholeheartedly disagree... I am open to persuasion ;)
>>>
>>>> This type should be the std::basic_string<underlying_char_type>().
>>>
>>>
>>> This would still mean that you have one per underlying_char_type, so 
>>> the same problem exists although it is now in a smaller problem 
>>> domain. My
>>
>>
>> Nope, in this case, the problem does not exist.
>> It's because you have this correspondence:
>> 1 stream - 1 underslying character type - 1 object that can keep 
>> delimeters
>> As oposed to:
>> 1 stream - N delimeter_types - N objects keeping these delimeters.
> 
> 
> <light-bulb = on>! ;)
> 
>>> main reason against using std::basic_string as the storage type is 
>>> performance (excessive copying of the delimeter values). Also, what 
>>> about managed strings in C++/CLI? Don't they require a String^ type, 
>>> or am I missing something?
>>
>>
>> whoa. I have no idea. But I do think that std::string should work ;) 
>> Or am I dreaming ;) ?
> 
> 
> C++/CLI implements it's String objects as wchar_t * strings. In VC7.x 
> you do
> 

Haven't used CLI, but doesn't it also have std::string?
(just asking)

> 
> You would need to convert to an ASCII string if outputting on std::cout.
> 

For C++/CLI, I guess you could simply output to std::wcout

Best,
John

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