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Kevlin Henney, with help from David Abrahams and Beman Dawes, originally
contributed the previous version of
numeric_cast<> which already presented the idea
of a runtime range check.
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Later, Eric Ford, Kevin Lynch and the author spotted some genericity problems
with that
numeric_cast<> which prevented it from being used
in a generic layer of math functions.
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An improved
numeric_cast<> which properly handled all combinations
of arithmetic types was presented.
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David Abrahams and Beman Dawes acknowledged the need of an improved version
of
numeric_cast<>
and supported the submission as originally laid out. Daryl Walker and Darin
Adler made some important comments and proposed fixes to the original submission.
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Special thanks go to Björn Karlsoon who helped the author considerably.
Having found the problems with
numeric_cast<> himself, he revised very carefully
the original submission and spot a subtle bug in the range checking implementation.
He also wrote part of this documentation and proof-read and corrected other
parts. And most importantly: the features now presented here in this library
evolved from the original submission as a result of the useful private
communications between Björn and the author.
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Guillaume Melquiond spoted some documentation and code issues, particularly
about rounding conversions.
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The following people contributed an important review of the design, documentation
and c ode: Kevin Lynch, Thorsten Ottosen, Paul Bristow, Daryle Walker,
Jhon Torjo, Eric Ford, Gennadiy Rozental.
