[boost] Re: lexical_cast to self

Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:

In generic code lexical_cast<> is sometimes used as a cast to the same type. I would like to shortcut this rather then going all the way by writing it to a stream and reading back.

Do you mean you sometimes use lexical_cast to cast between two types, neither of which is std::string? Could you tell why it's usefull -- it's very interesting since I never needed that myself. Wouldn't some more direct cast be more appropriate in that case? - Volodya