From: "Stewart, Robert" <Robert.Stewart@sig.com>
You have quite a mistaken notion about casts. static_cast<int>(1.235) returns an int. It does not return the double 1.235 retyped as int. lexical_cast is not pretending to be a cast. It *is* a cast. ... convert_cast does a proper cast. Conversion and casting are different shades of the same color. Consider static_cast<int>(1.235), which involves a conversion:
"4.9 Floating-integral conversions
1 An rvalue of a floating point type can be converted to an rvalue of an integer type."
Yes, that's a fair point. I stand corrected. Thank you. I guess, my interpretation of cast vs. conversion was based more on my expectations (the word popping up quite a bit recently) due to my personal childhood experiences deeply rooted in C with void* voidp = ... int* intp = (int*) voidp; V.