From: Stephan T. Lavavej (stl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-14 06:56:05
Why is regex's constructor explicit? Certainly for something like vector,
you don't want the size constructor to turn into a conversion from int. But
it seems to me that allowing
regex_merge(" foo ", "\\A\\s*(.*?)\\s*\\z", "$1")
instead of the current
regex_merge(" foo ", regex("\\A\\s*(.*?)\\s*\\z"), "$1")
wouldn't introduce any safety issues. Sure, you could get the order of the
arguments wrong, but you can do that anyways when you're using a temporary
regex.
Stephan T. Lavavej
http://nuwen.net