[boost] Re: Re: Draft Critique of Code Conversion Proposal (N1683)

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-07 02:42:49

"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
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| At 04:04 PM 1/5/2005, Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

| >|   void to_bytes(byte_string & destination,
| >|      wide_string const & source) const;
| >
| >I would prefer these to be free-standing functions.
| >Was there something that prohibited that?
|
| No. I was just following the pattern set by the proposal. I'm not sure how
| the LWG feels about that; I'll add a mention of the issue so they can
| decide. Would you care to add a short rationale?
|
| Thanks for the comment,

well, its an algorithm, right? All the algorithms in <algorithm> are 
free-standing
functions.

In some sense, we might need both. The class interface could be used under the 
hood
to provide the function interface.

-Thorsten