[boost] Re: MSVC++ 6.0 compiler errors with 1.30.0 (mostly lexical_cast.hpp)

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-22 11:15:36

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 09:52:07 -0500, David Abrahams
<dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>Kevlin Henney <kevlin_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> However, the decision as to whether this should be in the 'what' string
>> is perhaps one that can be revisited. It would be feasible to avoid any
>> allocation issues at all by leaving the human readable string as general
>> as it was before and adding type_info members that described the source
>> and target types.
>
>Yes, that was my suggestion.

I'm happy that std::type_info has a private copy constructor. Hadn't
it been for that, my suggestion to use just a couple of typedefs would
have been routinely rejected :-)

Genny.