-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/8/07, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
Dean Michael Berris wrote:
I still think the semantics of `lexical_cast("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.
Maybe I'm just short-sighted, but it seems to me this really isn't a problem. A lexical_cast conversion from char * -> char doesn't make much practical sense in my mind except for grabbing the first character in the string, which can be done numerous other ways. AFAICS, lexical_cast could be specialized for char * -> char for such conversions as the OP desires. To me, that would be far more useful than the current behavior. - - -- - - ------------------------------------------- Dan Day -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFGQUf5kXCf8XmmG+kRAgUbAJ0WoGOPLzF7REfWwDOxQzJBMGkBRwCffzmy Deh76uiFftcU++XnSRirmIg= =Tpgl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----