Re: History of and support for std::basic_string::back()
Jorgen Grahn skrev 2013-08-03 10:13:
On Sat, 2013-08-03, JC wrote:
On Friday, August 2, 2013 9:58:19 PM UTC-4, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Sat, 2013-08-03, JC wrote:
...
C++11 an evolution of the C++ standard, reflected in revisions to the
C++ specifications?
Yes.
Thanks! Do you know when back() was introduced [...]
That was the hard part of your question, so no. Sorry.
An ongoing problem with std::string is that it has its own section in
the standard (Clause 21) while the "real" containers are described in an
other section (Clause 23).
In the C++98 standard Clause 21 claims that basic_string has the same
interface as a reversible container (like std::vector) but if you check
the required member functions it actually doesn't. The container types
were improved and synchronized during standardization, but basic_string
wasn't always updated. Oops!
We can get some clues from this 2005 defect report:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html#534
where one user reports that it is already available on some implementations.
In C++11 it is required.
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