Re: [boost] environment variable access

From: nbecker_at_[hidden]
Date: 2002-01-23 14:47:32

    >> What I'd like (and what I'm trying to implement in command line/config
                 file
    >> parser) is map like interface. So that one could be able to say
    >> 
    >> environment["http_proxy"].as<ip_address>()
    >> 
    >> where "as" method is a shortcut to lexical_cast/any_cast.

What about orthogonality?  I don't think translations should be built
in.  environment should give you a string.  You do whatever conversion
you want from string to whatever using nonmember functions.