Re: Confusing result from std::string::length()
On Jun 6, 12:45 pm, Bart van Ingen Schenau <b...@ingen.ddns.info>
wrote:
Do you accept the excuse, for not properly separating interface and
implementation of templates, that it was written in a period where
export was not available on all supported compilers?
Or do you freely use export and forsake the compilers that don't support
such a fundamental feature that has been in the standard for over a
decade?
For the record, from the very 1st moment I read about the export
keyword, I belive in 1996 or 1997, I was turned off by it. There are
somethings that feel right, and some things that do not, and export
never felt right, so I never regarded it as fundamental.
Also, I will not reject a compiler simply because it is non-compliant.
I will only reject it when it is non-compliant in way that
significantly prevents regularity in the coding model. It just so
happens that most of the important features of C++ lend themselves to
the pursuit of a regular model.
-Le Chaud Lapin-
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