24 Jan
2011
24 Jan
'11
11:50 a.m.
From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Nevin Liber <nevin@eviloverlord.com> wrote:
On 21 January 2011 10:55, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
Do you want to prevent 1. wholesale mutation such as
x = y x += y
or just
2. per-char mutation such as
x[10] = 'a'
?
Eliminating #2 but not #1 would force c_str() to make a (possibly tracked) copy, to avoid #2 on its internal buffer (due to the trailing '\0' byte).
Who says we need a c_str()?
Almost everybody who uses any kind of API that does not has direct uses of this string and this is as almost every API around... Artyom