Re: [boost] Interest in super string class?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-06 06:49:20

"Pavel Vozenilek" <pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden]> writes:

> "Shunsuke Sogame" wrote:
>> Joel de Guzman wrote:
>>> Jeff Garland wrote:
>>>
>>>>   std::string dst(...)
>>>>   range_copy(rng|to_upper|to_lower|to_upper, dst);
>>>>
>>> Me, I prefer the immutable and functional approach:
>>>
>>>     to_upper(to_lower(to_upper(rng)))
>>>
>
> The super string was intended to be something
> familiar and easy to use for users.
>
> The functional syntax is not common in C++,

You don't use function calls?

> immutability will be feared as inefficient
> and the pipe syntax is completely novel.
>
> Something as
>
>   superstring s;
>   s.do_this().do_that();
>
> has a chance to be used in spite of having large API.

Maybe.  It could also still be functional as (for strings) it is in
Python.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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