Re: [boost] [convert] Boost.Convert Library Review

Subject: Re: [boost] [convert] Boost.Convert Library Review
From: Jeroen Habraken (vexocide_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-02 17:03:45

On 2 May 2011 19:30, Hartmut Kaiser <hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> So I'd favour accepting Boost.Convert, but being prepared to fairly
>> quickly deprecate/supersede it in favour of
>>
>> * Â A new version of lexical_cast which does take more arguments.
>>
>> and/or
>>
>> * a really slick version using Spirit  (GSoC project?).
>
> FWIW, I'm going to mentor such a GSoC project this year: Finalizing Coerce -
> a conversion library on top of Boost.Spirit (the student is Jeroen Habraken
> a.k.a VeXocide). I believe this will give us the functionality you're
> looking for.

It can be found over at https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/coerce/.

> Regards Hartmut
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> http://boost-spirit.com
>

Regards,
Jeroen