Michael Goldshteyn wrote:
"SergV"<serge-voropaev@yandex.ru> wrote in message news:loom.20110329T052451-354@post.gmane.org...
We discovered lexical_cast from 1.43 and 1.46.1 versions do not work in our program. But version of lexical_cast from trunk work very well. Version information: 1.46.1 - rev. 56161 13.09.2009 trunk - rev.65279 5.09.2010
1) Is there any reason that release does not include last version lexical_cast from trunk? 2) May be there are a lot of such forgotten files in trunk?
This is really sad!
Do you volunteer to maintainer lexical_cast? Does that mean lexical_cast is orphaned? I'd like to see lexical_cast have optimized conversions for string->number and number->string (template specializations using strtol/strtod; or optionally using
On 3/30/2011 9:22 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote: the spirit-based construe_cast). Being able to pass ios flags to control the format (i.e. boolalpha) would be nice too. The only hurdle I see was mentioned on 2010/01/19 by Alexander Nasonov:
You can't use C functions from C++ without saving the old C locale and restoring it after a conversion. Now, if you take into account multi-threading ... This would be a big argument in favor of construe_cast I guess.
-Matt