Re: [boost] [review] string convert

Subject: Re: [boost] [review] string convert
From: Matthew Chambers (matt.chambers42_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-05 13:50:22

On 5/5/2011 12:45 PM, Stewart, Robert wrote:
> Vicente BOTET wrote:
>>
>> are we discussing here a generic interface from type-to-type or
>> one that uses an intermediary stream to make the conversion?
>
> I've been considering it the former.  Why does using a stream to make the conversion affect that?

Same here. And lexical_cast may be reimplemented with optimized type-to-type specializations. 
Nothing in the name requires it to be type-to-stream-to-type.

-Matt