[Monotone-devel] Re: comments on .sqlite3.binary branch

[Bruce Stephens]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

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> (Does inheriting from std::string to add a public bool attribute seem
> a little odd to anyone else?  Obviously it works, but I would have
> used a struct { std::string; bool; } instead.)

Depends how often you want to use them in std::stringy contexts, I
guess.  If the usage is basically a std::string, and you use the bool
only for some specific purposes, then subclassing seems like the more
convenient approach.

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