Re: [boost] Re: Any interest in adding unicode support to boost?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-20 15:05:08

Rogier van Dalen wrote:
>
> // The actual Unicode string
> template <class CodeUnits, class NormalisationForm,
> class ErrorChecking>
> class string

By using ErrorChecking as a template parameter, you are encoding it as part 
of the string type, but this is not necessary, because there is no 
difference between values of strings with different ErrorChecking policies 
(ErrorChecking does not change the invariant). You should just provide 
different member functions for the two ErrorChecking behaviors, or pass the 
ErrorChecking parameter to the member functions that require it.

The other two parameters do seem to affect the string value/invariant, so 
they aren't redundant. Whether they are a good idea is another matter. :-)