[boost] Re: use of strcpy, strcat, etc in Boost libraries

From: Tony Juricic (tonygeek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-30 17:06:51

"Reece Dunn"  wrote:

> Thoughts? Comments?

Radical!

AFAIK, programmers have been writing enhancements to string functions that
take buffer size argument for years. Repetitive work. Thus, the standards
comitees should do something ASAP.

Tony

There is an old story of a certain nuclear comitee that was so scared to
discuss the tough real issues that they discussed where bycicles should be
parked for several hours during each of their meetings. I couldn't find a
link to the story on Google.