Re: [fixed_string] Why "fixed" rather than "static"?

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-11-28 12:12:26

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 12:56 AM Andrzej Krzemienski via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> why was this library called fixed_string?

It was a mistake. It was originally static_string (it came from
beast[1]) but someone suggested changing it and I listened. Oh well.

Regards

[1] <https://github.com/boostorg/beast/blob/0b68ed651b6bc7b681cf440ed6a220089e21473f/include/boost/beast/core/static_string.hpp>