"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote in message news:20060501040735.M23040@crystalclearsoftware.com...
... One other proposal you should be aware of is Pete Becker's n1982 for simple
numeric to string conversions:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2006/n1982.html
... While this is a very C like proposal it fills a basic gap in C++ for basic, high performance, (w)string to number conversions. My understanding is this the committee is pretty fond of this proposal -- perhaps someone that was in Berlin can say more (Beman, Howard?).
At least at the moment, the LWG intends to go forward with both proposals. I'm personally not convinced that is a good idea. Sounds a bit too much like design-by-committee. Time will tell.
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Possible mentors for this project could be authors of the "Lexical Conversion Library Proposal for TR2" proposal - Kevlin Henney and/or Beman Dawes.
I'm not sure Kevlin or Beman is available, but I'm certain we can find a good mentor if the proposal is accepted.
I'm trying to focus this summer on moving Boost libraries into TR2, so am not signing up for mentoring. Kevlin is always overcommitted too. OTOH, it really would be helpful is someone looked at the entire conversion picture, and tried to synthesize a complete solution. --Beman