[boost] Re: Formal review of "Output Formatters" library begins today

From: Roland Richter (roland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-15 14:30:21

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Roland Richter wrote:
>>  the reverse "input" operation
>>
>>    boost::lexical_cast< std::vector<int> >( "[ 7, 9 ]" );
>>    // throws bad_lexical_cast
>>
>>  fails. This is because lexical_stream turns off white space skipping,
>>  and outfmt uses "[ ", ", ", and " ]" (with all those nifty spaces)
>>  as default formatting.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> 
> I've made a noise about this in the past. I strongly believe that current
> lexical_cast behaviour does not play nice with existing stream operators
> (which are commonly written to assume whitespace is skipped). There's no
> good reason for that, and lexical_cast should not use the "noskipws" flag.
> 

  Do you happen to know why it was introduced then in the first place?

- Roland