On 11/17/2011 3:29 PM, Ion Gaztañaga wrote:

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

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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.

That makes sense. It does make it difficult to move an existing codebase over to boost strings. If I want to write interfaces that handle both std string and boost strings, what's the preferred way to do that? boost range?