Seriously though,

one should be able to write

std::string foo = 123
or even

std:: string foo;
foo.ToInt(123);

We updated the entry and now we use a different name for the string variable, as “str” is also a member of “stringstream.”

One question though, why does the string variable have to be named str?
I tried a different variable name and surprisingly it doesn’t work.

I’m sick and tired of

sprintf(buf, “somestring_%i”,counter++);
string name(buf);

which neither generic, readable nor .. c++

#include <sstream>

template <class T>
inline std::string to_string (const T& t)
{
std::stringstream ss;
ss << t;
return ss.str();
}