On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:28:27AM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote: > Hi Pavol, > > Pavol Droba wrote: > > > I have been reading the discussiong here about adding the support for > > unicode. > > > > Maybe there is a solution which would allow to have templated versions of > > relevant classes AND static library in one box. > > > > > > If we decide that specialization for char and wchar_t is sufficient, the > > headers can contain generic template based declarations, but the > > implementation will be given only for particular cases ( char and wchar_t > > ) and so it can be included in the static lib. > > Oh.. that's yet another approach. I *really* feel Boost-wide solution is > needed. >
I'm not sure. This solution is specific for string-like operations where two types for T are sufficient. > > Similar idea is used in stl for streams, strings and locales. > > I though that's different. I need to check out again, but IIRC, RW STL > shipped with borland's free compiler had all string definitions in headers. > I don't know about RW STL, but STLport and VC STL have locale and stream stuff compiled in the lib. Strings are mostly in headers, but CharTraits are linked. > > With a help from preprocessor, it should be easy to define two variants > > in one place. > > Also that could a possibility, that the .cpp file will be included as > > headers all this can be done using macros. > > Yep. Another viable option. It is up to you to decide ... Pavol _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
