Inline. "John Torjo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Using operator->() and operator*() you use "pointer value itself". It is > > pretty rare situation when you need it directly and not as part of > > abc->def() or *abc constructs. Example of c_str() is irrelevant --- you > can > > do all string manipulations without c_str(). The former is needed to > > interface legacy systems, which is not frequent case. > > Not quite. It's quite frequent to me, when I use STL strings on Win32 - for > calling UI functions like MessageBox, SetText, etc.
I hear you. I usually write a wrapper for such functions like SetText, which accept strings, if I use them frequently in a project. I don't use MessageBox frequently as part of user interface. But I use it for debugging. Usually it is used as part of some error reporting object (like assert facility), which, of course, takes strings. Thanks, Eugene _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
