On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:36 AM Rainer Deyke via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

String layer: overall, a solution looking for a problem.

I tend to agree with this but I had assumed there is a reason why it exists. Zach indicated that he doesn't care much about it, so it probably should be deleted, but I don't feel strongly about this because there are plenty of C++ APIs which define their own string type, and I don't see this as a problem. In C++, we have many of everything.