Re: [boost] [review] conversion - Vladimir's comments

Subject: Re: [boost] [review] conversion - Vladimir's comments
From: Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. (jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-30 14:54:07

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Gordon Woodhull <gordon_at_[hidden]>wrote:
[...]

> On Aug 1, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Vladimir Batov wrote:
> > On the conceptual level it is far from clear to me if such a framework is
> needed to begin with. In the Scope section Vicente explicitly states that
> his library "is not particularly concerned with cases of...". Those
> "excluded" cases happen to be the most tricky/used/needed cases. With those
> string-to-type, etc. cases taken out of the picture from the set-go, the
> usefulness of the remainder was many times questioned during Convert
> discussions (well before the Convert review) ... I never had a need for such
> a generic type-to-type conversion framework. Obviously, it's my own limited
> experience and it can be vastly different for others.
>
[...snip implementation concerns...]

It seems like Vladimir and I are partially echoing each other's concerns
(see my response to Vicente's example real world use case).

- Jeff