Re: [Boost-users] automatic conversion between boost::container::string and std::string

El 17/11/2011 18:31, Yi Ding escribió:

Hi,

Thanks for the new containers library. There's a lot of useful stuff in there. I was wondering: is it possible to do automatic conversion between boost::container::string and std::string? A lot of libraries currently use std::string.

Thanks, Yi

Automatic conversion is not usually a good idea. I guess you can use std::string(boost_string.c_str()); Maybe we could do an ugly hack to move memory allocated with std::string to boost::container::string, avoiding costly copies, but that of course, would require playing with underfined behaviour.