Re: [paragui-users] Does this mean the new homepage is up?

[Alexander Pipelka]

Am Die, 2002-04-16 um 05.48 schrieb Andrew Ford:
> Okay, take this for instance:
> 
> in addition to:
> 
> bool PG_FileArchive::Exists(const char *filename);
> 
> we could easily add:
> 
> inline bool PG_FileArchive::Exists( std::string
> &filename )
> {
>   return Exists( filename.c_str() );
> }
> 
> As a convenience for string users.

Ok. I don't see any problems.
But maybe the param should be "const std::string&".

> Now that I'm looking at the interface, something else
> that could be done (but I could easily see why someone
> wouldn't want to add it to the interface) is something
> like:
> 
> template <typename T> void PG_File::write( T *buffer,
> unsigned int numOfObjects )
> {
>   write( static_cast< void * >( buffer ), sizeof( T ),
>   numOfObjects ); 
> }

Uhh. I guess this would be a bit too much convenience. :))
I think the user should do the cast.

Alex