Re: [boost] Report from Berlin C++ Standards Committee meeting

From: Maxim Yegorushkin (maxim.yegorushkin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-10 04:30:44

On 4/10/06, Reece Dunn <msclrhd_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> > * Boost Lexical Cast has been tentatively accepted by the LWG for TR2.
>
> This has to be one of the most useful utilities in Boost.

All developers I know roll out their own versions of lexical_cast.
Last time I checked the implementation of boost::lexical_cast it had
efficiency bugs. There at least should be specializations for string
-> integer/double conversions that use strtoul/d functions directly
rather than iostreams.