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

From: Kevlin Henney (kevlin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-22 15:11:23

In article <20f001c2f09e$9e6da500$8d6c6f50_at_pc>, Terje Slettebø
<tslettebo_at_[hidden]> writes
>
>Regarding the other MSVC 6 warning given in the original report, Gennaro
>Prota has suggested using an explicit "!=", rather than relying on the
>implicit conversion from pointer to bool. This also avoids using a cast,
>instead.

Or one could use "stream << input && true" ;-) However, I think if one
is going to twist the expression of the code to satisfy the misplaced
oversensitivity of VC, it may be better to be more explicit than subtle,
ie "!(stream << input).fail()".

Kevlin
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