17 Feb
2009
17 Feb
'09
8:11 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 14:55, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> wrote:
The arguments, whether function or template, would specify the conversion to apply. For example, to_string<int>(s) could also be written as convert<int>(s). (Both can be rearranged to take two arguments and return a bool, for example, so the point is merely to eliminate directionality and "string" from the name.)
Why is removing directionality from the name a good idea? It seems like implicit_cast, for example, exists precisely for the readability gain of being unidirectional instead of using the bidirectional static_cast.