Re: Boost.StaticString (formerly Boost.FixedString) is ready for release!

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-02-24 00:47:24

Hear hear!

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 4:33 PM Krystian Stasiowski via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> After some post-review polishing, Boost.StaticString is good to go for
> release! I have been in touch with the review manager, and everything has
> been checked over.
>
> Repo:  https://github.com/sdkrystian/static_string
> Docs:  https://sdkrystian.github.io/doc/static_string
>
> Here are some things that have been changed post-review:
>
> - Library has been renamed from Boost.FixedString to Boost.StaticString.
> Class template fixed_string has been renamed to basic_static_string, and
> aliases have been added for common character types, similar to std::string.
> - constexpr support to the fullest extent supported by available compilers
> has been added.
> - Functions that will not throw have been marked noexcept.
> - Moved to a single header configuration.
> - std::hash and boost::hash_value support has been added.
> - It has been decided that functions will throw on capacity overflow.
> - A specialization for when the capacity is 0 has been added that has no
> member. Additionally, the type of the member used to store the size of the
> string is now statically chosen to be the smallest possible width unsigned
> standard integer type that can hold all the needed size values.
> - operator+ has been implemented.
> - Floating point conversion support has been added to
> to_static_string/to_static_wstring.
> - Lots of bugs fixed.
>
> More behind the scenes, a bunch of optimizations have been added, taking
> advantage of the fact that the capacity is part of the type and known at
> compile time.
>
> Again, thank you all who participated in the review, and thank you Joaquin
> for managing it!
>
> Regards,
> Krystian Stasiowski
>
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