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Subject: Re: [boost] [review] string convert
From: Vicente BOTET (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-03 16:09:20


> Message du 03/05/11 18:26
> De : "Vicente BOTET"
> A : boost_at_[hidden]
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> Objet : Re: [boost] [review] string convert
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> > Message du 03/05/11 11:11
> > De : "Vladimir Batov"
> > A : boost_at_[hidden]
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> > Objet : Re: [boost] [review] string convert
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> > > Vladimir Batov people.net.au> writes:
> > > > Vicente BOTET wanadoo.fr> writes:
> > > > The library provides a convert_to function that adds the specific dummy
> > > parameter. I recognize this is
> > > > tricky and that the overloading seems not natural from the user perspective
> > > but it works at least for the
> > > > cases I have tested.
> > >
> > > Vicente, Gordon,
> > >
> > > Thank you for the pointer, I had a quick look and indeed it seems to solve the
> > > specialization problem I was facing. Should we cancel/postpone this review and
> > > review Vicente's and mine together or something of that sort? If Vicente's is
> > > better as a starting point, it's fine by me. I am happy either way a s long as
> > > things are moving.
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> > Vicente,
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> > I had a quick look and your proposal. Conceptually it seems to be an extension
> > of lexical_cast philosophy on to type-to-type conversions. It does not seem to
> > provide any of the functionality that I (as a user) care about, i.e., fallback
> > value, throwing/non-throwing, formatting, locales, etc. Given convert_to
> > actually returns a Target value, I suspect, formatting, locales, etc. are simply
> > not possible as I believe we have to have an intermediary object (converter) to
> > apply additional formatting, etc. Am I correct in my reading?
> >
> > If so, then you and I are trying to address totally unrelated issues. I needed
> > 'convert' as lexical_cast not not doing what I needed it to do. I do not think I
> > immediately have a need for type-to-type extension of lexical_cast.
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I have a problem with less and greater symbols, please open the attached file that corresponds to my preceding mail (I've some configuration issues).

Sorry for the inconvenience.
Vicente



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