On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 1:26 PM Jonathan Sweemer via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I recently came across P2587 "to_string or not to_string", which has been accepted for C++26, and I am wondering whether there has since been any attempt to deprecate std::to_string?
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> The motivation would be to consolidate on std::format, which std::to_string is now (as of C++26) defined in terms of, thereby making the standard library marginally smaller and easier to teach (in my opinion).
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> If this is a stupid idea, then can you kindly inform me of the role that std::to_string is intended to play in the language for C++26 and beyond?


How about having a new class:

    template<class CharT, class Traits = std::char_traits<CharT>,
class Allocator = std::allocator<CharT> >
    class easy_basic_string : public basic_string<CharT, Traits, Allocator> {
         . . . . .
    };

which has operator overloading so that you can simply use "+" to
append a number to a string, like this:

    easy_string str("My name is Frederick and I have ");
    str += 6;
    str += " pet axolotls.";

Also, add a paragraph to the Standard that says you can safely cast a
'basic_string&' to an 'easy_basic_string&'. It wouldn't be out of the
ordinary to give special treatment to a type like this -- we already
have special rules for std::complex.