On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com> wrote:
The outcome was that to_string/from_string are not verbs, are slightly longer than convert and duplicate the namespace name; to/from are meaningless without the surrounding namespace name, which may be omitted or mangled with aliases.
Are you saying that boost::string::to(x) reads better than boost::to_string(x)?
2) What's the motivation for the convert function? Is it supposed to convert anything to anything? (It seems to me the motivation is to mimic the lexical_cast functionality but I don't think that's necessary.)
The convert function will eventually convert different things to strings and vice versa.
You can convert different things to string using to_string. You can convert different things from strings using from_string. My question is, what is the motivation for the convert function? What's the use case for it that doesn't work with to_string/from_string? Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode