Subject: Re: [boost] Checking interest in to_string functions
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-30 04:35:01


On 30/09/2011 06:20, Antony Polukhin wrote:
> As was mentioned in `[boost] to_string(v)`
> 1) Functions to_string and to_wstring are part of the upcoming C++0x
> standard. However, there are no functions for char16_t and char32_t
> conversions.
> 2) Some users can't use C++11 in some projects for quite some time,
> but can use boost.
> 3) "to_string(5)" is a lot shorter than
> "lexical_cast<std::string>(5)". Some users would like to use a shorter
> form.
>
> Is there interest in stoi, stoll, stof, to_string, to_wstring,
> to_u16string, stod and other functions for char, wchar_t, char16_t and
> char32_t conversions?
> Shall I add them to lexical_cast library, or as a separate conversion library?

Fast implementations of these things are already available from Spirit,
do you plan on reusing them?