Re: [RFC] std::string(0);

[Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>]

On Jun 11, 2004, at 10:51 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:

> Martin Sebor wrote:
> > A conforming implementation is not allowed to reject constructs
> > such as std::string (0) just because they might cause undefined
> > behavior at runtime. Consider this well-formed program:
> >     #include <string>
> >     int main () {
> >         if (0) std::string (0);
> >     }
> > Martin
>
> OK, so this means we can't go the "easy" way. The remaining options 
> are (AFAICS):
>
> a) Change the standard, make the above example illegal. Unlikely.

I have added this to the list of library issues.  We'll see what the 
LWG says about it in Redmond.

			--Matt