On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:10 PM Emil Dotchevski wrote: The discussion originated from the desire to improve upon lexical_cast for some particular use cases. I suggested the possibility of widening the scope beyond just string conversions. If there is no agreement to widen the scope, so be it. Don't throw out convert because it exceeds a scope not yet fully established.
If I'm not mistaken, the proposed library is about string conversions. The wider scope can't be understood or appreciated from within a to_string/from_string discussion. If you want to consider to_string and from_string a starting point for a more generic convert() interface, fine -- but that's still a separate interface that should be outside this discussion. Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode