Why isn't there a conversion from charT to basic_string ? It seem
pretty safe (and would help me not to break too much code).

Ok everyone here hate implicit conversion, so after a sugestion
about making more code legal, here is a proposal to make more
code illegal:

string s (' ', 5); // five spaces
// call basic_string::basic_string(size_type n, charT c,
// const Allocator& a = Allocator());

Many compiler won't give a warning here (I think g++ sometimes
gives a warning, sometimes not). Detection at compile time is
absolutly trivial:

private:
basic_string::basic_string (charT, size_type,
                           const Allocator& = Allocator())

An error will result in access spec violation or ambiguity.

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Valentin Bonnard
mailto:bonnardv@pratique.fr
http://www.pratique.fr/~bonnardv (Informations sur le C++ en Francais)
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