"Bjarke Roune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> | How about using a std::string wrapper which contains the needed asserts?
>> >
>> | I'm thinking of inheriting a wrapper from std::string and import that in
| the
>> | global namespace rather than std::string. This way, LyX will always be
| using
>> | the assert-improved string, while there will be no problems interacting
| with
>> | anything, since anything that expects a std::string will get just that.
| This
>> | does have the drawback that the asserts will not function while the
| string
>> | is being handled by third party code. I don't know how important that is
| to
>> | you.
>>
>> Inheriting will mostlikely not work well, wrapping might work,
>>
| Mind telling me why?
std::string does not have a virtual destructor. It has never been
inteded for inheritence.
>> however
>> you need std::string to be in namespace std for this to work and not
>> all C++ libs do that yet.
>>
| it could still be done with a typedef, though the other solution is imho
| more elegant.
yes.
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