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21 Conversion Library</h1>
23 <p>The Conversion Library improves program safety and clarity by performing
24 otherwise messy conversions. It includes cast-style function templates designed to complement the C++
25 Standard's built-in casts.</p>
26 <p>To reduce coupling, particularly to standard library IOStreams, the Boost
28 supplied by several headers:</p>
30 <li>The <a href="cast.htm">boost/cast</a> header provides <b>polymorphic_cast<></b>
31 and <b>polymorphic_downcast<></b> to perform safe casting between
32 polymorphic types.<br>
34 <li>The <a href="../../doc/html/boost_lexical_cast.html">boost/lexical_cast</a> header provides <b>lexical_cast<></b>
35 general literal text conversions, such as an <code>int</code> represented as
36 a <code>string</code>, or vice-versa.</li>
39 <p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED"
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43 Copyright 2001 Beman Dawes.
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