Re: [boost] [filesystem] windows/posix inconsistencies.

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] windows/posix inconsistencies.
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-31 11:33:08

Den 31-01-2012 14:47, Stephan T. Lavavej skrev:
> [Thorsten Ottosen]
>> However, consider

> * Replace string with wstring, and this becomes problematic on Windows.

Yep.

> * Additionally, returning const values like const string/const wstring inhibits move semantics.

True, but on the specific platform it would be faster to get a refence 
than copy+move.

I guess with the new & (I don't know of any compilers that have 
implemented it yet) feature we could have these overloads in path:

const string& string() const;
string        string() const &&;

so when a temporary path object is returned from path::extension(), the 
second overload is selected.

-Thorsten