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Subject: Re: [boost] Survey: What should an immutable byte sequence data structure be named?
From: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-29 01:03:49


> From: Gregory Crosswhite <gcross_at_[hidden]>
> Hey everyone,
>
> To gather more data about what the community thinks an immutable byte sequence
>data structure should be called (given that "string" has already been taken), I
>have created the following poll:
>
> https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/gcross/123312
>
> If you have an opinion on the matter, please consider visiting
> the above link and submitting your favorite name.
>

This link declines by browser... !$#$%^$%@#%$

(And this is Iceweasel 3 = Firefox 3 on Linux!)

Fix it or don't use services that decline it

So I put it there:

     boost::text

Rationale same as ICU that has UnicodeString for real
continuous mutable string and Text for text chunks.

      


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