At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:44:44 -0500, Chad Nelson wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:32:31 -0800 Mostafa <mostafa_working_away@yahoo.com> wrote:
operator* has a long history of providing the contents of a variable, even in C, and is a lot less typing to boot. But if you have any technical arguments against it, I'm listening.
Can we stick to std::string conventions as closely as possible? It makes using whatever new string library that much easier, and clearer, and maintainable.
Is there a conventional way to get the data stored in an std::string? ;-)
s.data() see std::vector (in C++0x at least, if not before).
From usage, it's not readily apparent what operator* is supposed to do in the context of strings, ie,
utf8_t myStr(...); some_api_foo(*myStr);
Even if I'm an experienced programmer, but a newbie to whatever library makes use of some_api_foo, I would be scratching my head at "*myStr"; and I would be forced to look up utf8_t::operator* or some_api_foo to figure it out.
+1 -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com