>>>>> Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>: > All right. Then derive svn::string from std::string, and add a .null() > method. You get to use all the standard string alogorithm > specializations, plus you get what you want.
There is one known objection to this: std::string doesn't have a virtual destructor, so if you hand a pointer to your derived string off to something that holds a std::string* and then do delete on that std::string* you enter into "undefined behaviour" territory. Meaning what happens isn't defined, and different compilers can do... interesting things.
