...for consistency with the other integral type conversions.

What are the difficulties in the implementation...

...cast( ... every type ... )"  // trying to find signed conversions


But I was trying to make the...

...of writing signed/unsigned conversions, so that making signed/unsigned conversions a compilation error is...

...first place, we wouldn't need any conversions. The OS ultimately takes only strings anyway...

No, you get to check the conversions going one way.

If you destroy, destroy in...

...an existing type, and which provides implicit conversions too/from that existing type so that...

Yes, your code becomes littered with conversions. Ugh.


Except that just doesn't work out...

...biggest gripes with boost::filesystem is that conversions between path and string necessitate a copy...

...it warns about pretty much all implicit conversions to bool, and IIRC, it then likes...

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           Summary: Some missing implicit conversions in dynamic array of
                    dynamic array literals...