🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <MATT.95Aug13161131@physics2.Berkeley.EDU>,
rickh@csn.net (Rick Hollinbeck) 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>
>: Is there any compelling reason for not having the conversion
>: to const char* as part of the standard?
>
>>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.)

Implicit conversions are indeed the major bugaboo.  See also Scott Meyers'
article in the August CUJ.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Herb Sutter                 2228 Urwin, Ste 102         voice (416) 618-0184
Connected Object Solutions  Oakville ON Canada L6L 2T2    fax (905) 847-6019
---
[ comp.std.c++ is moderated.  Submission address: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu.
Contact address: std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu.  The moderation policy
is summarized in http://dogbert.lbl.gov/~matt/std-c++/policy.html. ]