David Abrahams skrev:
on Wed Jun 18 2008, Raider
wrote: Can anyone tell why boost 1.35 dropped support of boost::begin()/end() for zero terminated strings (const char*/wchar_t*)?
You might ask why we didn't make it so that char(&)[N] was interpreted as an array of length N but char* was interpreted as a null-terminated string that only has forward iterators (to avoid O(N) "random access" operations, which are also evil in generic code)... I'm not entirely sure of the answer to that.
We believed that support for null-terminated strings would belong in string focused libraries. The function as_literal() was added for that purpose (so just use this function if you use BOOST_FOREACH with char* objects). I guess we could define the iterator type of char* to be some forward iterator, but I'm not sure how useful that really is. -Thorsten