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From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-25 16:57:24

"Andy Little" <andy_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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>
> "David Abrahams" wrote
>
>> It's simple: it's a cast you use when the source type is implicitly
>> convertible to the target type, to force the implicit conversion.
>> It's less liberal than static_cast, which will convert in the opposite
>> direction.
>
> Hows the attached? Its <libs/conversion/index.html> with the above info on
> implicit_cast
> added.

I can see the attachments mangled. Here's the text.

regards
Andy Little

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
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<title>Boost Conversion Library</title>
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<h1><img border="0" src="../../boost.png" align="center" width="277"
height="86">Boost
Conversion Library</h1>

<p>The Conversion Library improves program safety and clarity by performing
otherwise messy conversions.&nbsp; It includes cast-style function templates
designed to complement the C++
Standard's built-in casts.</p>
<p>To reduce coupling, particularly to standard library IOStreams, the Boost
Conversion Library is
supplied by several headers:</p>
<ul>

<li>The boost/cast header provides
<b>polymorphic_cast&lt;&gt;</b>
  and <b>polymorphic_downcast&lt;&gt;</b> to perform safe casting between
  polymorphic types.<br>

</li>

<li>The boost/lexical_cast header provides
<b>lexical_cast&lt;&gt;</b>
    general literal text conversions, such as an <code>int</code> represented as
    a <code>string</code>, or vice-versa.</li>

<li>The boost/implicit_cast header
provides <b>implicit_cast&lt;&gt;</b> which is used when the source type is
implicitly convertible to the target type, to force the implicit conversion.
It's less liberal than static_cast, which will convert in the opposite
direction..<br>

</ul>
<hr>
<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED"
S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->Jan 25, 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan
i-checksum="30348" -->
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