Hello Mathias, Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 11:10:11 PM, you wrote:
Dean Michael Berris wrote:
I still think the semantics of `lexical_cast<int8_t>("127")` should allow for the conversion to happen -- either convert to a 'short int' then assign to a char, if that makes any sense.
There is no way to distinguish int8_t and char. They are both aliases to the same type. Welcome to the wonderful world of typedefs.
It could be a "strong typedef": class int8_t { char value; public: int8_t() {} int8_t(int8_t const& that) : value(that.value) {} int8_t(char that) : value(that) {} // etc. all applicable operators and traits }; But I guess this would eventually break something more critical than lexical_cast. -- Best regards, Andrey mailto:andysem@mail.ru