Re: [boost] lexical_cast: what's a lexical_context?

From: Joerg Baumann (Joerg.Baumann_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-22 15:32:51

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Roland Richter wrote:

> quoted from the lexical_cast doc:
>
> "[...] The conversion is parameterized by the current lexical_context,
> if set. If [...]"
>
> Hm. What's a lexical_context?
> It doesn't appear in the source -- a nice-to-have future feature?

Probably a relict of the experimental version mentioned in:

Future directions
* A mechanism for providing quality-of-service control is needed, e.g.
  formatting and exception behavior. In the name of simplicity (and
  release), the current version strips out an earlier experimental
  version.

Regards,
  joerg

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