22 Jan
2011
22 Jan
'11
1:57 a.m.
On 01/21/2011 01:32 PM, Matus Chochlik wrote:
... elision by patrick .... I'm not thinking about it as a completely new thing, more like future std::string 2.0, an upgrade not a replacement.
It's not an upgrade because suddenly, many things that people do with std::string wouldn't work. You're really taking a special-case subset of what the std::string is used for and saying that it's the only one that people can use any more. If you are throwing away much of the utility and focusing in on a special case, don't name it string because it's no longer a general case string. Patrick