Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:44:42 +0100, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@hotmail.com> wrote:
Jeff Garland wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:00:52 +0400, Maxim Yegorushkin wrote
Recent postings showed interest in an immutable string facility [*]. Its interface and implementation has now reached a stable state (I hope).
I am formally requesting that const_string be added to the review queue. Wasn't there some discussion of merging this proposal with the fixed_string stuff and reviewing it together -- looks like that's been decided against?
I haven't heard anything against the merger.
Neither did I.
If you want to hear a voice against the merger, I will be glad to respond. ;-) Can't speak for others, but I'd like to see the specifications of the components first, before going ahead with a merger, which can obscure things a bit. Obviously, every std::string replacement might need to provide a number of boilerplate member functions that can be expressed in terms of a more primitive interface, and this functionality can be implemented as a reusable component. But this is not a merger. It's plain old reuse.