Subject: Re: [boost] [string_ref] Don't rely on implicit conversation for operators
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-19 20:01:15
On May 18, 2013, at 10:45 PM, Daniel James <daniel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 17 May 2013 19:39, Nicola Bizzoca <nicola.bizzoca_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> boost::string_ref should offer overloads for string and const char* so it
>> can be possible write code like
>> boost::string_ref("boost") == "boost" && boost::string_ref("c++") ==
>> std::string("c++")
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like this is coming in the next
> release. There will be a beta release in early June if you want to try
> that.
Yes; there's code in there now to enable this (replacing other code that supposedly did that, but didn't work on MSVC).
-- Marshall
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