Re: Please help with testing & improving a StringValue class

From:

Greg Herlihy <greghe@pacbell.net>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:34:07 -0000

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<1189391647.445616.172770@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>

On Sep 9, 12:56 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote:

(I'm wondering whether SharedArray should provide indexing, and/or
perhaps keep track of the length of the array: perplexingly and almost
paradoxically, it hasn't been needed. I'm also wondering whether there
is some better way to steer constructor selection (in StringValue and
StringValueOrNull) the Right Way, currently using boost::disable_if?)

One idea to help prevent StringValue's constructor from being passed a
const char array when a string literal is expected, would be to offer
a "StringLiteral" (or STRING_LITERAL) macro that clients could use to
designate the string literal initializer explicitly. (This suggestion
is based on a similar macro in Apple's CFString class.)

    #define StringLiteral(a) StringValue(""a)

The double-quotes will cause a compile-time error - unless the
initializer "a" is a string literal (that is, it has double-quotes
surrounding it):

    StringValue f()
    {
        const char s[] = "some text";

        return StringLiteral(s); // Error: expected primary-expression
before '('

        return StringLiteral("some text"); // OK
    }

and alternately:

    StringValue sv( StringLiteral("a string literal"));

Although I am not a big fan of macros, I will admit that they
occassionally have their uses.

Greg

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