Re: [boost] [string_ref] Feature requests

Subject: Re: [boost] [string_ref] Feature requests
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-30 07:11:05

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Mathias Gaunard
<mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 29/12/12 15:33, Daniel James wrote:
>
>> Easy conversion to std::basic_string. There's a C++11 explicit string
>> operator, but that isn't much good for portable code. Something like a
>> 'string' or 'to_string' member would do the trick.
>
>
> Why not make string_ref implicitly convertible when in C++03?

And why not do the same in C++11?

-- 
Olaf