Re: [boost] Re: lexical_cast fixes

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-16 12:38:10

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Kevlin,

Kevlin Henney wrote:
| In article <3E719D8A.4090303_at_[hidden]>, Thomas Witt
| <witt_at_[hidden]> writes
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| (1) I would not consider that to be something to document as the
| implementation should be free to choose a suitable approach,

Agreed, when I was talking about getline() and str() I was using them
more like a placeholder for the implied semantics. The semantic is
documented now.

| so long as
| it satisfies the principle of least astonishment (the whitespace bug
| clearly failed this test :->).

Yes, it did not satisfy the principle of least surprise. No, it wasn't a
bug.

Thanks for the fix and the documentation update. Looks much better now.

Nitpickingly yours

Thomas

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