On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 04:07:36PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 02:17:45PM +0200, Tobias Hunger wrote: > > This > > is very annoying as you need to fill in all the gory details if you want > > to have a string of something else (like string<size_t> to hold a list > > Well, yeah. "all the gory details" /depend/ on the type you choose; > they cannot be guessed by a default implementation.
I should add that the recent August archives of the libstdc++ list (gcc.gnu.org) have examples of how to do the gory details. They will be formalized into note in the online docs as soon as someone (read: me) has the time, and possibly may be coded into an <ext/something> header. Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002