27 Nov
2012
27 Nov
'12
7:09 p.m.
On 26/11/12 13:52, Daniel James wrote:
On 26 November 2012 11:56, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com> wrote:
The problem with std::string is the same as with string_ref - it doesn't support implicit construction from an arbitrary range, so my examples with custom string types would still not work.
Shouldn't construction from an arbitrary range be explicit? Arbitrary implicit conversions are problematic. To get implicit construction from third party strings, I'd use some sort of explicit customisation mechanism.
I never understood what problems people had with implicit conversion. Sure, a template implicit conversion operator is dangerous, but all other uses, in particular implicit constructors, have no problem really.