Good point.

I hope the answer is:

- short circuited;

- type need not to be streamable.

B/Rgds

Max

From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jones
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:28 PM
To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
Subject: [Boost-users] [lexical_cast] How is the degenerate case handled?

If you use lexical_cast to cast between identical types,

eg. lexical_cast< int >( 4 );

does it go through all the machinery of streaming out and back, or
does it short circuit? In those circumstances, does the type need
to be streamable?

Thanks, Rob.