[Development] Improving toInt, toLong, etc.

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2014-02-05 12:19, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em qua 05 fev 2014, às 10:37:27, Robert Knight escreveu:
>>> The idea was to silently return a default-constructed type.
>>
>> I'm not keen on that. Aside from adding extra restrictions to the
>> types that the class can be used with as you mention,
>> it runs the much more severe risk of masking serious bugs.
>
> No way around it if we exclude exceptions.
>
> We need to return something.

...or you could abort, which I assume is what operator* does?

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Matthew