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

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-27 12:45:54

At Saturday 2003/03/22 13:11, you wrote:
>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()".

that doesn't mean the same thing as  if(stream << input)

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