"Hartmut Kaiser" <hartmut.kaiser@gmail.com> writes:
Hi all,
normally, the review period of the Fixed Strings library written by Reece Dunn ended today. All we got so far are 3 reviews, which is too less to make a proper decision. I really would like to encourage you to submit a review for this library to get a representative result. For this reason I'ld like to extend the review period for another week until February 5th to allow for more reviews. I'm convinced, that a Fixed Strings library would make a good addition to Boost and in the end it should be useful to a lot more of people than to the 3 of us who send in a review.
For what it's worth, if there's another review I intend to vote strongly against. I have nothign against Reece or against this particular design for a fixed strings library. As we discuss this issue I become more and more convinced that using fixed sized strings at all is just wrong in principle 99.9% of the time. We could get a lot more mileage out of a fixed-capacity allocator, when such a thing is needed. And it would be lots more effective if allocators had a realloc interface as has often been proposed, and if basic_string were forced to use it use it. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com