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Re: [RFC] C++1x breaking the ABI in one more place :(

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Christopher Jefferson
<chris@bubblescope.net> wrote:
>
> On 21 May 2010, at 02:54, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> Of course, at the same time we can think about how we will fix things in future. I hope the ABI breaking of such a basic type as string might be a one-off event in the history of C++. We have learnt a lot about implementing std::string over the last 8 years or so, hopefully we can now come up with the "correct" implementation.

I hope too.
A problem we collectively have had with C++ is a lot of nice ideas or tricks.
But, we never figured out the simples one that scale.  Hoepfully, string is
a good lesson.

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> Chris
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