Why doesn't C++ reimplement C standard functions with C++ elements/style?

Question

For a specific example, consider atoi(const std::string &). This is very frustrating, since we as programmers would need to use it so much.

Answer 1

For your example, you've got two options:

std::string mystring("4");
int myint = atoi(mystring.c_str());

Or something like:

std::string mystring("4");
std::istringstream buffer(mystring);
int myint = 0;
buffer >> myint;

The second option gives you better error management than the first.