Re: [Boost-users] basic_string literals

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-29 04:56:36

On 7/28/06 10:04 AM, "Johan Råde" <rade_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Does Boost offer any facility for declaring basic_string literals in
> templates, i.e. something like
> 
>    basic_string<CharType> s = BOOST_STRING("foo");

No, it doesn't AFAIK.  Would this provide anything useful if it did exist?
It wouldn't be a literal, since "basic_string" isn't a built-in type.  That
means there is no compile-time savings; a string object is still created and
it happens at run-time.  What advantage would it have over something like:

    std::string  s( "foo" );

If you really meant any "CharType" and not just "char", then a
"BOOST_STRING" macro would have to reference a locale (probably the default
global one) to perform a conversion.

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