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[Brad Anderson]

On Monday, 11 March 2013 at 19:25:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/11/13 1:39 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> This has become a C++ thread but... :)
>>
>> On 03/11/2013 02:30 AM, FG wrote:
>>
>> > the good old stream code:
>> >
>> > std::stringstream ss; ss << number; out = ss.str();
>> >
>> > Seriously? If I could at least chain that...
>> >
>> > out = std::stringstream(number).str();
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, no.
>>
>> We consider Boost a part of the C++ standard:
>>
>> #include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
>>
>> using namespace boost;
>>
>> // ...
>>
>> out = lexical_cast<string>(number);
>
> Problem with that it's it's incredibly slow (both ways).
>
> Andrei

Speaking of which, I noticed Facebook's Folly had a conv.h with a 
to<>.  Was that inspired by Phobos' std.conv?

https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Conv.md