The c++ library implementation on MacOS is broken, it does not allow you to
correctly use points to members of std::string. We work around this by not
directly using member pointers and instead wrapping the method calls
with our own functions.
- Conversions are only attempted on a dispatch
- Conversions are only attempted after a normal dispatch has failed
- Conversions are only attempted if exactly one function matches
the signature of the parameters passed in - excluding the mismatched
arithmetic parameters
- This feature should not be relied on in performance critical code
overhead is added for each function call that requires a conversion
to execute, see the tests performed above.
For uint8_t, int8_t and char the value is first
converted to an appropriate int type.
This way the value is converted to a number
rather than a character.
