2010/2/3 Alan Tennant <alan2here@gmail.com>

I get an error that points me to this page http://stlab.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting
Probably because I'm using VC++9 not 8.

Just to clarify I meant this.

std::string s1 = "1234";
std::cout<<s1.length(); // couts 4

adobe::polly p1;
p1 = s1;
std::cout<<p1.length(); // not necessarily this exact syntax. couts 4

std::string s2;
s2 = polly_cast<std::string>(p1);
std::cout<<s2;

The syntax is more like this:

poly<ostreamable> p;

p = 42;

cout << p; // writes "42"

p = "hello";

cout << p; // writes "hello";

p = vector<int>(); // does not compile, because vector<int> is not ostreamable.

Note that you should implement ostreamable.

So it's not going to be safe as in "type safe" but it may well be perfectly safe.

I don't understand this.

Roman Perepelitsa.