RE: [boost] Proposal: string_cast

From: Jan Langer (jan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-03 17:52:48

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jeff Garland wrote:
>> If you have an object whose serialization contains whitespace, say:
>> ..snip...
>> Of course, there's room here for supporting wide strings, etc.  Has
>> anything such as this been considered before?
>
>Yes, have a look at these discussions:
>[discussions]
>
>I also added this to the Wiki page on Lexical Cast for the next time this comes up....

although the archive seems to handle some threads incorrectly, i read
through the mentioned messages and there are several requests for this
simple change and there are no serious concerns. the only question is
whether to make it a new function to_string or to specialize
lexical_cast for std::string.
so why isn't it done?

is there more need for discussion or is there no one who wants to do the
actual work? or does it need a formal review ;-) ?

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jan langer ... jan_at_[hidden]
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