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| Kevlin Henney, with help from David Abrahams and Beman Dawes, originally |
| contributed the previous version of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special"><></span></code> 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 <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special"><></span></code> |
| which prevented it from being used in a generic layer of math functions. |
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| An improved <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special"><></span></code> 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 <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special"><></span></code> |
| 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 <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span><span class="special"><></span></code> 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. |
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