I know this may be a FAQ (although the answer does not appear to be in the
faq), but why is there no operator const char * in the stl string class?
I looked at the most recent, publicly-available draft and it definitely
isn't there.  Given the existence of const char * string::c_str(), this
makes no sense to me.

--scott
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