Re: [container] static_string ?

From: Bjorn Reese (breese_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-09-12 15:36:53

On 9/12/19 5:11 PM, JeanHeyd Meneide via Boost wrote:

> Containers like bikeshedding_string were almost going to have implicit
> constructors from any range, but the paper was shot down and the new
> direction is using an explicit free function (https://wg21.link/p1206).

I have been using this approach [1] for years, but found it inconvenient
to use in practice because you have to specify the target type, which
may have a long qualified name. Fortunately CTAD enables us to omit
template argument types.

[1] 
https://github.com/breese/trial.protocol/blob/develop/include/trial/dynamic/convert/convert.hpp