Re: Random questions

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-Dec-2012, Júlio Hoffimann wrote:

| In fact, i would replace the entire single_num() function by either a try/
| catch block with boost::lexical_cast<double> which is more robust and faster
| (see http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/doc/html/boost_lexical_cast/
| performance.html for performance considerations) or be conservative and use
| std::strtod() (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/strtof)

Sorry, but adding boost as a dependency for a single function is not
going to happen.

jwe