Re: Exported class's object deletion problem
Stephan T. Lavavej (MSFT) wrote:
No. BTW: the STL is dead, though large parts of it live on in the C++
standard library.
"The STL" is convenient shorthand for "a subset of the C++ Standard
Library, [...]
I'm aware of this. ;)
The Standard's basic_string fully supports user-defined character types,
although there's a lot of machinery involved (char_traits, etc.) and
restrictions (the character types must be POD), and virtually no one takes
advantage of it. C++0x introduces additional character types (char16_t,
char32_t, IIRC), where this comes in handy.
Actually, I'm more of a user than a language lawyer, but IIRC, you are not
allowed to specialise templates in namespace std, but you would have to do
so in order to get a char_traits<T> with your user-defined T. Hence, the
standard implicitly (and mistakenly!) forbids specialisations of
basic_string other than those it provides itself.
Just the 2cc I once found on comp.lang.c++.moderated...
Cheers!
Uli
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