> 1. Just document it. Not so good, IMHO. > > 2. Document the special case and add a check for NULL pointers before > calling strcmp(). > > 3. Remove the special case alltogether. After all, I might want to check > that the pointers are equal and not the string they point to. This might > be the best solution, but breaks backward compatibility. > > Markus
In majority of the cases when user is comparing two character pointers he need namely "string comparison". Requiring to cast both sides to std::string is a big burden IMO. So I would choose solution 2. Gennadiy. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
