Subject: Re: [boost] [interprocess] A little gentle criticism
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-22 05:04:40
Edward Diener wrote:
> First of all I really appreciate the interprocess Boost library for its
> rich set of synchronization primitives and shared memory techniques.
Thanks.
> Please Boost developers, C++ programmers deserve not to deal with
> C-style strings anymore. Personally I do not think anything new coming
> out of the C++, including the C++ standard committee, should have any
> functionality taking a 'const charType *' from now to to the end of C++
> eternity <g>.
>
> Other than the above I really enjoy using interprocess and say bravo to
> the author of the library for a well thought out implementation. But how
> this C-ism got by the reviewers I will never know.
Thanks for your notes. I think I should add std::string overloads to
those functions and retain old ones to avoid breaking source code. I'll
add it to my to-do list.
Regards,
Ion