Re: [boost] Re: [Formal review request] const_string

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-18 06:35:48

Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:59:49 -0400, David Abrahams
> <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> "Maxim Yegorushkin" <e-maxim_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> Recent postings showed interest in an immutable string facility
>>> [*]. Its  interface and implementation has now reached a stable
>>> state (I hope).
>>>
>>> I am formally requesting that const_string be added to the review
>>> queue.
>>
>> Have you already gone through all the steps of
>> http://www.boost.org/more/submission_process.htm?
>
> Not quite:
>
> Determine interest - I think the interst was determined:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/boost/2180929
>
> Preliminary submission - I'm not sure if the file section on Yahoo is
> alive, so I hosted it on SourceForge and made it available since the
> aforementioned posting.
>
> Refinement - I'm not sure about this step, since the library does not
> introduce new concepts, rather fills an existing gap. It also has been
> reported to work with existing code replacing std::basic_string<> with
> little effort.
>
> So..?

I think that the only thing that stands between you and a formal submission 
is the missing formal specification of const_string.