Re: Why no conversion of string to const char * in STD lib?

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From: Oren Ben-Kiki
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:32

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Rick Hollinbeck (rickh@csn.net) wrote:
: Don & (bashford@toad.scripps.edu) wrote:
: : According to Plauger's book on the Draft Standard C++ library,
: : there is no "operator const char *" for the string class.
: : [snip]

: From what I understand, the const char* conversion operator would trigger
: too many implicit type conversions in certain situations, leading to many
: unpleasant surprises. the c_str() member is a way to control this. (See
: Plauger's recent article in the C/C++ Users Journal which discusses this.)

But now that we have the 'explicit' keyword, shouldn't this decision be
reconsidered? This seems like just the situation for which it was intended.

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Subject: Re: Why no conversion of string to const char * in STD lib?
Date: 16 Aug 1995 16:32:12 GMT
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