String-algo : Interested, but concern over interface and choice of functions, generic vs basic_string.5.3 separate proposal
Any details on this? I love this library, and I would love to see it standardized in some form. Overall I've found the interface and function choices to be excellent (and I'd love to see even more), and I love that it's generic and not limited to basic_string. I use it on vectors and other containers for different kinds of network protocol parsing.
Thorsten Ottosen acted as champion for the paper, but I'll try to recall the discussion.
There concern was that at least some of the algorithms were only useful in the context of strings, and so it would be an over-generalization to supply them as free algorithms.
My point exactly. I believe string_algo library went (completely?) wrong way. It should never use iterator parameterization, but char type only. If there exist any algorithm that is useful beyond strings - it doesn't belong to this library. Gennadiy