From: "Stewart, Robert" <Robert.Stewart@sig.com>
Vicente BOTET wrote:
The same applies to classes. For me convert stands for a function, converter for a class, convertible for an interface and conversion for a namespace. I'm sure you agree with me on this common usage.
Yes, certainly.
Conventions are good as far as they serve a purpose. Blindly following anything (a particular convention in this case) is questionable. The distinction between classes and functions is quite blurred IMO. Do I need to mention a functor? In the end, the user does not give a hoot about any particular conventions the author might have been following as long as the resulting code is clean/easy to read. With that in mind it's hard to beat boost::convert::to<int>. Anything else mentioned so far (like boost::conversion::convert_to, etc.) seem inferior to me (your mileage may vary). V.