Re: [boost] [Better Enums] More complete release - feedbackrequested

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On Jun 11, 2015, at 09:33, Peter Dimov wrote:

Sam Kellett wrote:

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I would prefer free-functions in a namespace. Something like:

better_enums::from_string<Channel>("Red");

I'm not a big fan of lexical_cast, but it should be noted that if Channel defines operator>>, the above could be spelled lexical_cast<Channel>("Red").

I’m planning to overload the stream operators, but probably in a separate header file. The reason is that including <iostream> slows down compilation by an order of magnitude or so compared to just the current contents of enum.h, when used for a few enums. Do you think I should just not bother with this, and include it anyway? Thanks, Anton