David Abrahams wrote:
on Sun Feb 08 2009, Vladimir.Batov-AT-wrsa.com.au wrote:
Now I get the feeling that people are suggesting/implying we should leave lexical_cast behind as an interesting-but-not-quite-successful experiment (which I somewhat agree with) and start fresh free of its shackles.
That's just my opinion. And of course, I could be wrong ;-)
As someone who originally supported Vladimir's original suggestion, I would say that I agree with the idea of a fresh start.
I understand. However, I feel uneasy about the easy we are planning to brush lexical_cast off. That must be very disheartening for Kevlin (the author) and Alex (Nasonov, the maintainer). Primarily for Alex as I feel he's been putting quite an effort into it lately. Even though I *might* be leaning towards a fresh start from the technical point of view, it does not feel right morally. Even from purely technical point of view I feel Alex'd be best qualified to make the move as I feel it'll be largely lexical_cast implementation (at least initially) under a different/better/stricter interface. Alex, are you there? How do feel about it? Could you do it? As you can see your effort won't be in vain and already there is quite a support for your effort. I really want you to spearhead the effort. V.