On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 at 20:51, Jonathan Wakely <cxx_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 at 20:30, Tiago Freire <tmiguelf_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> > > 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.
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> Why not change std::stoi to be that one-liner, which is almost what's
> being proposed?
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Or at least do something like P2007 and/or P2584 , so that std::from_chars
is simpler to use. Why should everybody reimplement the function to make it
less low-level?