Chad Nelson wrote:
I reiterate my request from this message <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/214601>: would those interested in the UTF String library please comment on the new version?
Hi Chad, It looks like you've started a new thread in the hope of "throwing Mathias off the scent". His tone has indeed been unusually aggressive and it would be good to get some other peoples' comments - but to me, it looks like he has made a fundamentally accurate analysis of your proposal. For example, you have this "almost" random-access feature that, IIUC, for UTF-8 will give you O(1) random access if you have only ASCII characters and for UTF-16 will give you O(1) random access if you have only BMP characters. That's just horrible! Imagine an email application that slows down by a factor of N when it receives a message with a non-BMP character in it - yuk. IMHO, if you want to add these features, they should be done in a way that prevents the user from accidentally misusing them. Rather than this drop-in replacement for std::string that misbehaves at run time, I would prefer something that requires some work to make it fit, but then behaves as expected. Regards, Phil.