Re: [boost] [conversion] try_lexical_cast and 200$

AMDG On 12/11/2013 12:36 PM, Antony Polukhin wrote:

There is a bounty for implementing a `try_lexical_cast` from Facebook: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1352296-exceptionless-lexical_cast

Because of that three questions arise:

* Is there some official policy for "feature implementation sponsorship"?

* `try_lexical_cast` must be added or not?

There's no necessity either way. You're the maintainer, right? Personally, I'm a bit unhappy about this trend of creating parallel API's that throw or report an error in some other way.

And if yes, what signature is preffered:

bool try_lexical_cast(Out&, const In&) bool try_lexical_cast(const In&, Out&) boost::optional<Out> try_lexical_cast(const In&)

* Is there a bank account "for Boost's needs" that is used to do hosting payments, conference room rental payments and other support stuff (to were those 200$ may be transfered)?

It's handled by the Software Freedom Conservancy. (nit: it's $200, not 200$) In Christ, Steven Watanabe