28 Jul
2009
28 Jul
'09
11:45 p.m.
Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard <at> ens-lyon.org> writes:
for what it worth I came to exactly the same conclusion while ago and introduced basic_cstring template (in Boost.Test code and in all my day life projects), which is is tiny abstract that wraps two pointers or pointer and size to model any buffers in C like interfaces.
Why not use iterator_range, which even works for any iterator? Arguably, it doesn't support pointer + size, only pointer + pointer.
basic_cstring predates iterator range by several years. It also have semantic of actual string, unlike iterator_range. Gennadiy