Re: [boost] Formal Review: Boost Cast Library

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-07 13:57:06

At 04:33 PM 12/7/2000 +0000, Kevlin Henney wrote:

 > [Discussion of convert_number...]
 >
 >This suggests that perhaps we should either rebrand the cast library the
 >conversions library, with cast-like functions simply being one of the
 >offerings,

Good idea.  That would open it up for future additions which didn't fit the 
cast mold.

 > or break out the numeric stuff into a separate header to let
 >it grow a little.

Unless coupling is a problem, seems like it would be better not to have too 
many headers.  Gets hard to remember what is in which.

--Beman