Re: [boost] [lexical-cast] version of lexical_cast in 1.46.1 is quite older than in trunk

Subject: Re: [boost] [lexical-cast] version of lexical_cast in 1.46.1 is quite older than in trunk
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-01 08:14:43

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Matthew Chambers
<matt.chambers42_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> ... I don't care that TR1's
> std::lexical_cast will differ in implementation. That's not a sound argument
> for letting boost::lexical_cast fester, especially when there is so much
> room for improvement. In other words, how many things in boost have
> equivalently named entities in std? How many of them do the exact same thing
> vs. do it better?

Could you explain? There isn't any "TR1 std::lexical_cast", AFAIK.

--Beman