From: Rogier van Dalen (rogiervd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-22 03:32:51


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:02:34 -0700, Eric Niebler
<eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> No fair bringing religion into this. ;-) I'll repeat what I said before
> -- this would be an unfortunate design, and you'll hear about it from
> your users. If you force people to do their bit twiddling in
> vector<char*_t>, then you impose an extra allocation and a copy to get
> it into a unicode::string, and most people won't bother.

What frequent use cases do you see where people will want to change
bits rather than work with characters?

Rogier