Re: [boost] Formal Review: Boost Cast Library

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-07 11:21:23

At 08:38 AM 12/7/2000 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

 >Reviewing my own submission, one thing I might like to see someday is a 
way
 >to report conversion failures that doesn't involve exceptions. Sometimes
 >you
 >just want to ask the question "does this value fit in a T?" and the 
answer
 >needs to be handled locally even if it's no (e.g. "OK, in that case I'll 
do
 >the computation with a BigNum"). For these situations, an exception 
doesn't
 >seem as appropriate.

That seems like a real need to me, and definitely different from the need 
met by numeric_cast<>().

--Beman