[boost] Re: lexical_cast

From: Ross Smith (rosss_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-13 21:13:52

Aleksandr Golovanov wrote:
> Hello, I'm pretty new here, but I've extensively used boost library for
> about a year.
> Yesterday, I ran into a small problem, lexical_cast accepts copy instead of
> (const)? reference to a source. I have a class which I would prefer to be
> noncopyable and castable with laxical_cast at the same time. I've been
> forced to reject noncopyable concept because of that strange feature of the
> lexical_cast. Is there any particular reason of such feature? And if not, is
> it possible to fix it in new release?

Wrap the object in boost::cref().

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