Re: [boost] [string] proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [string] proposal
From: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-24 06:50:56

> From: Dave Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Nevin Liber <nevin_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
> > On 21 January 2011 10:55, Dave Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Do you want to prevent
> >> 1.  wholesale mutation such as
> >>
> >>          x = y
> >>           x += y
> >>
> >> or just
> >>
> >> 2.  per-char mutation such as
> >>
> >>          x[10] =  'a'
> >>
> >> ?
> >>
> >
> > Eliminating #2 but not  #1 would force c_str() to make a (possibly tracked)
> > copy, to avoid #2 on  its internal buffer (due to the trailing '\0' byte).
> 
> Who says we need a  c_str()?
> 

Almost everybody who uses any kind of API that does not has direct uses
of this string and this is as almost every API around...

Artyom