On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:51:32 -0700, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
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I've been working on a little project where I've had to doing lots of string processing, so I decided to put together a string type that wraps up boost.regex and boost.string_algo into a string type. I also remember a discussion in the LWG about whether the various string algorithms should be built in or not -- well consider this a test -- personally I find it easier built into the string than as standalone functions.
I appreciate the convenience of such an interface, I really do, but doesn't this design just compound the "fat interface" problems that std::string already has?
Yes, that's partially the point :-)
Hi Jeff, just to be sure I understood: *the* two reasons for such a class are: (a) helping novices (b) having a cleaner (whatever that means) syntax. Sorry if I'm missing something or oversimplifying the issue. It seems to me that (a) is a secondary point, as being a novice is something deemed to disappear asap if you want to seriously program in C++; (b) is very nicely obtained with Shunsuke's proposal, which seems to get the best of the two worlds: power and syntactical convenience (BTW, Shunsuke, is the code in the vault?). Other points? -- [ Gennaro Prota, C++ developer for hire ] [ resume: available on request ]