Did you remove print() and println()? -joe
Andy Heninger wrote: > > I'm about to commit a version of DOMString with many of the changes that > have been discussed in this thread, but not all, at least not yet. > > Differences from Robert's original list (the message that started this > thread) are these: > > o I did not remove the DOMString(char *) constructor. There's > just too much use of it, much of it in code outside of my > control. > > I did add the new member function (Robert's suggestion) > static DOMString DOMString::transcode(char *) > which does the same thing but lets you be explicit about it. > And is nicely symmetric with the existing transcode(). > > o DOMString::DOMString(size_t), for reserving buffer space, is removed. > But an overloaded constructor taking(int) remains, to avoid > breaking java-like code of the form > someDOMString = null; > There is enough usage of this construct that I prefer not to > break it, and, for better or worse, these DOM bindings do try > to be as compatible as reasonably possible with the Java. > > Overloading on DOMNullPointer * doesn't work in this case because > it is ambiguous when null is defined to be 0. > > The new overload is documented as being for handling nulls only, > and the implementation has an assert check for the passed value > being null. Not as nice as catching problems at compile time, > but better than nothing. > > o Erase() isn't in. I think that it should be, but am unsure > of the name. DOMString already has deleteData(), taken from > the CharacterData interface in the W3C DOM spec, along with > appendData(). Maybe a no-parameters overload of this would > be better. > > o The XMLStrL is not in. I'd like to see something like it, > but I don't think that I fully understand everything about > this problem yet. I'm also a little worried about having a > function whose efficiency of operation can not be known by > a developer - it could be a compile time constant or an > expensive call to a transcoding service. > > The rest is there, including all of the proposed overloads of + and +=, > and a fix to appendData() to make it work efficiently with strings > with reserved buffer space. > > -- Andy -- ------------------------------------- Joe Gregorio MTS System Corp Program Manager www.mts.com