On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 23:48, Vladimir Batov <batov@people.net.au> wrote:
I am not saying "boost::strings isn't good enough". It just looks odd to me. I've never seen boost:lamdas, etc.
The library's primary namespace (in parent ::boost) is given that same name, except when there's a component with that name (e.g., boost::tuple), in which case the namespace name is pluralized. For example, ::boost::filesystem. http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Naming_consistency And perhaps you recall a small discussion about boost::uuids::uuid? :P I have a full response to the thread coming, but to tide you over while I'm typing, here's something overly cute that works in g++ 4.1.2 and I think is conforming: int i = 0; std::stringstream("1") >> i; std::cout << i << std::endl; std::stringstream("11") >> std::hex >> i; std::cout << i << std::endl; (std::stringstream("a") >> std::hex >> i) || (i = 2); std::cout << i << std::endl; (std::stringstream("a") >> i) || (i = 3); std::cout << i << std::endl; It gives, as expected: 1 17 10 3 Yes, I know it has lots of problems -- "1z" comes to mind -- but I enjoyed it. ~ Scott