Re: [boost] Review: Regular Expression Library

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-22 08:56:11

John Maddock wrote:

> Yes, I think I'll take those out, trouble is, they're *extremely*
> convenient at times, I wish their was some way to overload static_cast so
> that explicit casts would be allowed but implicit casts not found.  Would
> you be happy with a "int toi()" member function or is that tempting fate
> <bg>?

Oh, *please* don't call it toi()! This is what lexical_cast<> is for, BTW.

-Dave