RE: [boost] Proposal: string_cast

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-05 21:19:50

At 05:52 PM 4/3/2002, Jan Langer wrote:

 >>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 ;-) ?

I've started to pester Kevlin Henney.  If he isn't going to work on 
lexical_cast issues, we ought to let someone else have a go at them.

But there are tricky issues involved, so I hope anyone working on a 
proposal will run it by Kevlin for his opinion.

--Beman