On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 at 20:30, Tiago Freire <tmiguelf_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> > > Isn't <charconv> already locale independent?
> > > In what way after C++17 would stoi not be obsolete?
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> > Seriously?
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> > Because std::stoi(function_returning_string()) is much simpler than:
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> > auto str = function_returning_string();
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> > int i;
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> > if (auto [ptr, ec] = std::from_chars(str.data(), str.data()+str.size(),
> i); ec)
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> I’m going to double down on this.
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> Looks simpler, takes longer.
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> If you insist having it a one liner, just wrap it up in a function, you
> would still be saving a lot of time.
>

Why not change std::stoi to be that one-liner, which is almost what's being
proposed?