26 Mar
2004
26 Mar
'04
10:26 p.m.
We could do something like this. But as you have says yourself (and Herb Sutter in the book ) in majority of the cases it does not worse the
"Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com> wrote in message news:c429pi$h45$1@sea.gmane.org... trouble.
In practice you couldn't change string class globally in whole application to use different comparison. In consequence you will pay with a lot of conversions.
I basically agree, but as I said in a reply to Peter, the required conversions would be minimal in most cases if string functions such as constuctors and assignment operators were liberalized to accept specializations of basic_string with different traits types. Jonathan