Re: [boost] [UTF String] UTF String library 1.5 ready for perusal

Subject: Re: [boost] [UTF String] UTF String library 1.5 ready for perusal
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-10 08:22:56

On 09/02/2011 15:50, Chad Nelson wrote:

> This version is substantially better than the original. The design has
> been somewhat simplified, removing extraneous features like null-string
> emulation. Each of the classes now contain as many of the std::string
> functions as I could efficiently add (essentially all of them in
> utf32_t), including I/O stream functions

Bad design, IMHO.

, and also features code-point
> iterators.

That code point iterator uses pointers and indexes instead of iterators, 
which means it cannot work as an arbitrary iterator adaptor even though 
it could with virtually no change, especially since it only requires a 
forward iterator.