"Maxim Yegorushkin" <maxim.yegorushkin@gmail.com> wrote in message news:3254098f0604100258y68d4d4dbw68e0e24e7128d7e9@mail.gmail.com...
On 4/10/06, Phil Nash <phil.nash.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
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True. Boost have long ignored these issues, no wonder they accepted it tentatively.
The thing is, lexical_cast in its current implementation, is simple and elegant, and perfectly usable for most cases.
In the real world practicality beats purity. The fact is people do not use boost::lexical_cast because of the aforementioned problems.
Last time I looked, four out of five end-users in the "Who's using Boost" section reported using lexical_cast. So it might be more accurate to say "_some_ people do not use lexical_cast" . The LWG is aware of those issues. That is the sort of thing they often discuss. --Beman