oops, looks like substack ate a few words. I meant to say that strings are severely overused. Sometimes I argue that they shouldn't even have native support in programming languages so that programmers have natural friction when trying to use them. But it's a long rent for a separate article.
Thanks for posting. This is something that we all need to keep in mind.
It was added to 14 for the ordered containers (map, set) and was added to the unordered ones in 20.
yep and unfortunately it's easy to miss in case of implicit conversions. Making everything explicit is my top hope for future C++.
Strings are severely what? :)
oops, looks like substack ate a few words. I meant to say that strings are severely overused. Sometimes I argue that they shouldn't even have native support in programming languages so that programmers have natural friction when trying to use them. But it's a long rent for a separate article.