Re: [boost] [filesystem] becoming worse than the standard?

Vinnie Falco wrote:

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:42 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:

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you don't define the semantics of the operations, in particular, what is the expected result

Yes. Thank you for noticing this, as it is exactly what I intended. It is the caller's responsibility to determine if the operation makes sense. The library doesn't care what the outcome is, only that the syntactic requirements are met. Which is how I documented it :)

The semantics are pretty clear when value_type is char, which is what is required. It's less clear what should happen when the library calls append or assign with iterators whose value_type is char on something whose value_type is wchar_t, which is what you seem to be doing.