10 Apr
2006
10 Apr
'06
9:58 a.m.
On 4/10/06, Phil Nash <phil.nash.lists@gmail.com> wrote: []
True. Boost have long ignored these issues, no wonder they accepted it tentatively.
The thing is, lexical_cast in its current implementation, is simple and elegant, and perfectly usable for most cases.
In the real world practicality beats purity. The fact is people do not use boost::lexical_cast because of the aforementioned problems.