17 Feb
2009
17 Feb
'09
7:46 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 14:39, Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski@gmail.com> wrote:
My question is, what is the motivation for the convert function? What's the use case for it that doesn't work with to_string/from_string?
I said I can't stand prepositions (from, to) used as identifiers, and wanted the functions to be verbs. I don't think I said I like just plain "convert" though; I would certainly prefer to_string and from_string to a nebulous, domain-ambiguous "convert" function. The one use case that can see that doesn't "fit" with to_string and from_string would be string <=> wstring and such, but that would be better as transcode or something anyways.