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