4 Jul
2006
4 Jul
'06
9:31 p.m.
Edward Diener wrote:
I pointed out what I thought was the only bad design decision in std::string, but it's a done deal already and the mavens of C++ evidently want to support C idioms for the life of the language so who am I to object.
I didn't respond earlier, but I agree with you on this point. Without the C influence std::string could be trimmer.
Other than that, the much-maligned design of std::string is actually excellent, but that shouldn't stop anyone else from adding new functionality to a derived class and jeff has elegantly done so. Thanks Jeff !
Sure :-) Jeff