Re: Re: Re: lexical_cast and gcc 2.96

From: Kevlin Henney (kevlin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-18 11:57:31

>   From: "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
>From: "Kevlin Henney" <kevlin_at_[hidden]>
>> I should have mentioned why I didn't include this option: historically
>> the original numeric_cast had multiple exception types, but there was a
>> feeling that this was superfluous. I was assuming that the same would
>> also apply to lexical_cast, for consistency. However, I think that now
>> that you have suggested it, it ought to be up for consideration.
>
>Perhaps I need to elaborate. :-)

No, no need to elaborate. What you described was exactly what I was
suggesting, exactly how numeric_cast used exceptions originally, and how
most programmers would expect to use inheritance with exceptions.

My question is that as this fine-grained approach was not favoured
before, should we now reconsider its use. In other words, should we
embrace such an approach more generally, eg for numeric_cast as well?

Kevlin
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