Re: [boost] Interest in super string class?

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-04 17:52:26

Jeff Garland wrote:
> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

>>In php, there is not a single member functions in a string, and all 
>>string processing is done with free-standing functions. In general I 
>>find strings in php easy to work with:
>>
>>http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
>>http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php
> 
> 
> I've written code in PHP as well.  It has the advantage over C++ in that it 
> doesn't have templates to distract in the documentation.  But overall, I think 
> PHP string handling is a mess...sorry.
> 

Don't be sorry :-) I don't find the interface super good, but it gets 
the job done with minimal fuss.

>>>>Not a good idea IMO.
>>>
>>>We disagree, obviously, and that's fine. Just to save some time, I'm pretty 
>>>sure it's impossible to convince me that range or something else is going to 
>>>solve my set of issues.
>>
>>Probably not. I did not have that I mind. I think some extensions to 
>>range will make stuff like regexes easier, but it would give you "one 
> 
>                                                      ^^^^^^
> 
>>place for all string processing".
> 
> 
> Sorry -- do you mean 'wouldn't give'?

Yes.

-Thorsten