[RFC] std::string(0);

[Daniel Frey]

Loren James Rittle wrote:
> In article <1087279330.1403.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>,
> Dhruv Matani<dhruvbird@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>>>BTW, would "" be equivalent to '\0'?
> 
> 
> "" is a pointer.  '\0' is a character.

"" is an array of const char, not a pointer. The difference can be seen 
here:

template< int N >
void f( const char(&)[N] ) {}

int main() {
   const char* p = "";
   f( "" );
   f( p );
}

Regards, Daniel

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