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Copyright © 2001 Beman Dawes
Copyright © 2014-2021 Antony Polukhin
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
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The Conversion Library improves program safety and clarity by performing otherwise messy conversions. It includes cast-style function templates designed to complement the C++ Standard's built-in casts.
To reduce coupling, particularly to standard library IOStreams, the Boost Conversion Library is supplied by several headers:
polymorphic_cast<> and polymorphic_downcast<>
          to perform safe casting between polymorphic types.
        polymorphic_pointer_cast<>
          and polymorphic_pointer_downcast<>
        implicit_cast<> to perform implicit casts only
          (no down-cast, no void*->T*, no U->T if T has only explicit constructors
          for U).
        lexical_cast<>
          general literal text conversions, such as an int
          represented as a string,
          or vice-versa.