I want to extend std::string, but not for the reason you might think.

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Published on 2010-03-18T20:17:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 20:21 UTC
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I have a method that effectively takes a string. However, there is a very limited subset of strings I want to use. I was thinking of typedef'ing std::string as some class, and call the functions explicit. I'm not sure that would work, however. Ideas?

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