id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
6358,Documentation,Robert Ramey,Fernando Cacciola,"I want to use boost numeric conversion.

I NEED to use boost numeric conversion.

But I can't really figure out how to use it.

a) the interface with policies which contain function options which contain...
is just too hard to follow.  I  think this is a design problem.

b) the documentation of all this isn't complete - and it reflects the interface.  trying to figure it out is like pulling teeth.

It ""looks like"" it depends upon numeric_limits for minimums, maximums, etc.  I would hope this means that if I create my own numeric type and specialize numeric_limits for it, the convert<...> will ""just work"" and I'll get an overflow/under flow exception when I need it.  But trying to verify that this works like this by looking at the documentation is like pulling teeth.  I believe the library works and/or can be made to work for what I want to do, but the documentation is presenting a real obstacle so I have to look at the code itself - which I shouldn't have to do.

Robert Ramey
",Bugs,new,To Be Determined,numeric,Boost 1.48.0,Problem,,,