On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM Matt Borland via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
There's not been any demand for a string constructor is really the main reason there isn't one. Would you want the behavior of a theoretical constructor to match the behavior of chars_format::general, much like from_chars without a specified format? That would be nothing more than a thin wrapper which is easy to implement.
If you are talking about current users of the library it may be true that no demand exists, but I did bring that up in original review <https://listarchives.boost.org/Archives/boost/2025/01/259117.php>. Not that my opinion is super important, but Richard is not only person to bring this up, c/p from my original review: API Usability Missing from string/char array constructor is problematic. I find this API quite natural to use, e.g. let from_string = Decimal::from_str("1.1").unwrap();