On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Christopher Jefferson <chris@bubblescope.net> wrote:
If you are suggesting it should do other things, then you are opening a big box I don't want to go into. I do not want a unifying single "convert" method, that turns anything into anything else, mainly because it will gets things wrong most of the time.
The opinion that the mother of all convert functions that can convert anything into anything won't work can't be defended without delving into it in details. I would be satisfied if there is at least an acknowledgment that those details must be considered before such semantics are seriously proposed -OR- we argee that it's just for strings and focus on its pros and cons over to_string/from_string, in this limited domain. Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode