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Re: Collation implementation
- To: libstdc++ at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Collation implementation
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:46:40 -0700 (PDT)
> > Get real. You never ever want to base everything else on a C++
> > library. This is a horrendous stupidity. C++ brings not only an
> > unstable API, it also introduces a huge amount of overhead (code,
> > data, initialization).
>
> Dietmar is not stupid, never mind horrendously stupid.
Agreed. The response to this was unfortunate. Dietmar's input is always
welcome.
> Certainly it would be best if both C and C++ libraries used the same
> data files underneath, whatever code is used to apply them. It may be
> that the IBM package would be preferable as the locale implementation
> underlying both C and C++ libraries.
I'm assuming this issue is orthogonal to the iconv issues that ulrich,
you, and I have been discussing on and off for weeks?
-benjamin