Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:41:37AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>> I really do belive that the drawback with a cstring is a lot larger
>> than the drawbacks of string. cstring cannot store '\0', assignment is
>> always O(n) if you use dynamic allocation, it does not play well with
>> std::string.
>
| Ok, maybe I did not make the point clear enough. cstring should only be
| used when data is static, so copy is O(1) since it has to copy the pointer,
| not the data.
You then have a string that can be used for almost nothing.
boost::array<char, 10>
| I see no easy way to enforce this by the compiler, but e.g. std::valarray
| behaves similarly.
>> bull...
>>
>> I use C++ as syntactic sugar...
>
| Oh yes. And you buy everybody one of these 2GHz machines just to compile
| and run LyX.
So this is what you are playing at. (as if I didn't guess...)
And you are not talking of running lyx, don't even pretend you are...
only compiling...
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