On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Antony Polukhin <antoshkka@gmail.com> wrote:
2011/9/29 Olaf van der Spek <ml@vdspek.org>:
Some time ago (2002) there was talk about a to_string function. Did this ever materialize?
Functions to_string and to_wstring are part of the upcoming C++0x standard. However, there is no to_u16string and to_u32string.
But they're not in Boost? Unfortunately I can't use C++11 in some projects for quite some time.
"to_string(5)" is a lot shorter than "lexical_cast<std::string>(5)".
Likewise for "to_int("5")".
As for me, it is easier to remember one function lexical_cast, than tens of of them: stoi, stoll, stof, to_string, to_wstring, stod... Also, it is hard to use those functions in generic programming.
Not every function is a generic function. Olaf