Re: [Boost-users] [Boost String Algorithms library] ireplace_all bug with character arrays

From: shunsuke (pstade.mb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-17 06:35:18

Pavol Droba wrote:
> 
> shunsuke wrote:
>> Pavol Droba wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> shunsuke wrote:
>>>> Pavol Droba wrote:
>>>>> Not necessary. Why couldn't we take the whole array as a string when no 
>>>>> null character is present?
>>>> It means as_literal will not have constant complexity?
>>>>
>>> as_literal doesn't have contant complexity even now, since it works with 
>>> c-strings. It has constant complexity only in case of arrays and that's 
>>> only because the implementation is wrong.
>> If so, as_literal should have been named as "as_c_str", IMO.
>>
> 
> Since as_literal is used quite some time already, I don't see any 
> compelling reason to rename it.

I agree as_literal can't be renamed.
Now we have to look for a new name?
   `SIZE(as_???("ab\0c")) == 4`

as_??? returns in constant time.
I don't find the name yet. :-)

Regards,

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Shunsuke Sogame