On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:46:07PM +0000, Alisdair Meredith wrote: > Pavol Droba wrote: > > To pick on a function at random... > > > Seq ltrim( const Seq& Input, const std::locale& Loc=std::locale() ) > > Why the default to std::locale? > > In typical use, I expect Seq to be an instantiation of > std::basic_string. Given this is a string library, what motivation is > there to support other containers? If none, then why not default to > locale of the string-type? > Library is about the string operations, but I see no reason to limit them to basic_string. In many occasions these functions can be used with other containers as well.
But I can provide specialization for basic_string which will use its default locale. Would this be sufficient for you? Regards Pavol _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
