Emil Dotchevski wrote:
The outcome was that to_string/from_string are not verbs, are slightly longer than convert and duplicate the namespace name; to/from are meaningless without the surrounding namespace name, which may be omitted or mangled with aliases.
Are you saying that
boost::string::to(x)
reads better than
boost::to_string(x)?
<sigh> Here we go again... They both are bad, IMO. I'm against polluting the boost namespace, so boost::some_namespace::to_string(x) is better, but the submission author and some others didn't like it either. The consensus was boost::string::convert, if I'm not missing anything.
The convert function will eventually convert different things to strings and vice versa.
You can convert different things to string using to_string. You can convert different things from strings using from_string.
My question is, what is the motivation for the convert function? What's the use case for it that doesn't work with to_string/from_string?
There isn't any particular case for using the "convert" naming. As there isn't one for "to_string/from_string".