Re: [boost] Interest in super string class?

Joel de Guzman wrote:

Me, I prefer the immutable and functional approach:

to_upper(to_lower(to_upper(rng)))

Yeah, for the record, I never liked the use of the |. With the plain functional syntax, the joke is very clear.

Of course the issue with this is always the efficiency.

For the record, I don't like fat everything-but-the-kitchen-sink interface too. Same as I dislike mutating functions. Sorry, Jeff.

To be clear, I'm not opposed to an immutable super_string -- I agree that would make things nicer. However, I don't have the time or inclination to write the core of a string class (is there a boost.const_string somewhere?). The other thing I value highly working seamlessly with existing code that uses std::string. Jeff