Paul A. Bristow expressed the need for better handling of <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2022.pdf" target="_top">Input
        &amp; Output of NaN and infinity for the C++ Standard Library</a> and
        suggested following the C99 format.
      </p>
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        Antony Polukhin improved lexical cast avoiding stringstream so that it was
        no longer necessary to use a globale C99 facet to handle nonfinites.
      </p>
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        H&#229;kan Ard&#246;, Boris Gubenko, J