Re: [Boost-users] [uuid] to string problem

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [uuid] to string problem
From: John Dlugosz (JDlugosz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-11 19:12:05

> > How about making explicit specializations of lexical_cast that would
> be faster than the general implementation?  That way the optimization
> is invisible.
> 
> Nevermind optimizations, I think that a simple function call is easier
> to use and more practical: std::string x=to_string(y). Lexical_cast is
> in a different domain altogether IMO, plus it has other issues, for
> example it can't use ADL.
> 
> Emil Dotchevski

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I like the idea of defining operator<< and being done with it.  You can then use an easy-to-use wrapper to trigger it with all defaults (that would be lexical_cast), or a somewhat more verbose inline formatter that uses stringstreams, or the full ios library, as needed.

If it's an explicit specialization, lexical_cast<string> is just another spelling for to_string.  



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