[wx-dev] Re: case insensitive find() in wxString

[Stefan.Neis at t-online.de]

        Hi,

> well, as ABX pointed out looking at string.h it seems that wxStringBase 
> is the std::string replacement when std::string is not usable and that 
> wxString (which derives from wxStringBase) implements all 
> wxString-specific methods which are not part of std::string.
> So I think that the two layers are already there.

To me, it sounded less like having two layers, but rather having a class
like e.g. wxStringTokenizer in addition to the string class...

> However I still do not understand why should we want to switch from 
> wxString to std::string in future.... as far as wxString and std::string 
> are "compatible" (i.e. it's easy to convert in both senses in projects 
> which need to use both) I don't see any advantage from such switch.

Even if conversion is easy, especially when passing individual strings as
arguments to a function, I can imagine it gets rather ugly if you want/need
to pass arrays or lists or something similar of the right kind of strings
to a function. Also, all this conversion back and forth is not exactly
pretty.

But I have to admit that I'm using wxString only, anyway, so from my POV it's
a purely academic exercise...

        Regards,
	        Stefan