Re: lexical_cast again

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-07 09:04:12

on 12/5/00 9:41 AM, Kevlin Henney at kevlin_at_[hidden] wrote:

> In message <90ibuc+udet_at_[hidden]>, d.frey_at_[hidden] writes
[SNIP]
>> About lexical_cast_helper: I suggest hiding it in a "detail"-namespace
>> or something like that.
> 
> Initially, yes. But it seems like a feature that we should be offering
> to others for their own specialisations, so perhaps in the long run
> migrate it up to public and documented boost.

That's a neat idea.  I've used it in one of my functions.  Archived file
"more_math.hpp" in the "more_math.zip" file in the Boost vault uses the
technique for the general division routine.  The routine uses a helper class
for compute the division and modulus.  The default implementation of the
helper class calls operator/() and operator%() separately, but users should
specialize the helper class if the user provides a simultaneous division and
modulus routine.

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