Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] URI processing (Was Re: Work Left)

[K. G. <kim...@gm...>]

Hi Dean,

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:45, Dean Michael Berris
<mik...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> On an unrelated note, doesn't using ostringstream always require
>> basic_string?  And char_type is not orthogonal to string_type and char_type.
>>
>
> template <> string<network::tags::default_> {
>  typedef std::string type;
> };
>
> template <> struct string<network::tags::wide_default_> {
>  typedef std::wstring type;
> };
>
> [...]

I wonder if what Glyn is looking for is something like:

template <> char_based_traits<network::tags::default_> {
 typedef std::string string_type;
 typedef std::ostringstream ostringstream_type;
 typedef char char_type;
};

so that related traits are defined together, and orthogonal traits
separately. Just guessing, though. But it doesn't make intuitive sense
to me to specialize them separated from each other, when they're all
based on the definition of char.

- Kim