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Re: automatic conversions to character strings
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Olaf Till |
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Re: automatic conversions to character strings |
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Fri, 13 Nov 2015 18:01:20 +0100 |
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 09:36:18AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I'm beginning to think that value extractors that do implicit conversions
> are kind of evil.
What were the reasons for this concept of implicit conversions?
Maybe just relying on (implicitly converting) value extractors in each
case was a kind of misusing them, and actually e.g. .is_string()
should indeed have be called first in many cases ...
OTOH just only using value extractors is more convenient, and I don't
remember having had any use for these implicit conversions ...
Olaf
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