Reece Dunn wrote:

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Is there any interest in the ability to generate a

basic_string compliant

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interface from a base set of functions in a similar way that the iterator adaptors work?

While I don't have a present need for it, there has been discussion of various types of strings including ropes and small string optimized on the list. A utility such as you've proposed would make writing them easier.

This would also benefit libraries designed specifically for STL strings. See, for example, Common Text Transformation Library, http://cttl.sourceforge.net/. Is there is a need for grammar-based STL string transformations? Igor Kholodov http://cttl.sourceforge.net/