Re: [boost] Re: Re: char[] support in Boost.Range

From: Dave Harris (brangdon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-19 15:14:44

In-Reply-To: <d6dhiu$hai$1_at_[hidden]>
technews_at_[hidden] (Jonathan Turkanis) wrote (abridged):
> > Are we going to generalise it to allow any (compile-time constant)
> > terminator?
>
> Why does the terminator have to be a compile-time constant?

I was hesitant about suggesting a generalisation which added run-time 
overhead over only supporting '\0'.

Also, the need is not very common in my experience.

-- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK.