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  20 <h1><img border="0" src="../../boost.png" align="center" width="277" height="86">Boost
  21 Conversion Library</h1>
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  23 <p>The Conversion Library improves program safety and clarity by performing
  24 otherwise messy conversions.&nbsp; 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
  27 Conversion Library is
  28 supplied by several headers:</p>
  29 <ul>
  30   <li>The <a href="cast.htm">boost/polymorphic_cast.hpp and boost/polymorphic_pointer_cast.hpp</a>
  31     headers provide <b>polymorphic_cast&lt;&gt;</b>,
  32     <b>polymorphic_downcast&lt;&gt;</b> and <b>polymorphic_pointer_downcast&lt;&gt;</b> to perform safe casting between
  33   polymorphic types.<br>
  34   </li>
  35   <li>The boost/implicit_cast.hpp header provides <b>implicit_cast&lt;&gt;</b>
  36     to perform implicit casts only (no down-cast, no void*->T*, no U->T if T has only explicit constructors for U).<br>
  37   </li>
  38   <li>The <a href="../../doc/html/boost_lexical_cast.html">boost/lexical_cast</a> header provides <b>lexical_cast&lt;&gt;</b>
  39     general literal text conversions, such as an <code>int</code> represented as
  40     a <code>string</code>, or vice-versa.</li>
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  43 <p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED"
  44 S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->June 23, 2005<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="30348" -->
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  47     Copyright 2001 Beman Dawes.
  48     Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
  49     file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
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