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Remove mentions of lexical_cast from docs #28

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Expand Up @@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ The Conversion Library improves program safety and clarity by performing
otherwise messy conversions. It includes cast-style function templates designed
to complement the C++ Standard's built-in casts.

To reduce coupling, particularly to standard library IOStreams,
the Boost Conversion Library is supplied by several headers:
To reduce coupling, the Boost Conversion Library is supplied by several headers:

# The [@boost:boost/polymorphic_cast.hpp boost/polymorphic_cast.hpp] header
provides [link polymorphic_cast `polymorphic_cast<>`] and
Expand All @@ -42,8 +41,6 @@ the Boost Conversion Library is supplied by several headers:
[link polymorphic_pointer_cast `polymorphic_pointer_downcast<>`]
# The [@boost:boost/implicit_cast.hpp boost/implicit_cast.hpp] header provides `implicit_cast<>`
to perform implicit casts only (no down-cast, no void*->T*, no U->T if T has only explicit constructors for U).
# The [@boost:boost/lexical_cast.hpp boost/lexical_cast.hpp] header
provides [@boost:doc/libs/release/libs/lexical_cast/ `lexical_cast<>`] general literal text conversions, such as an `int` represented as a `string`, or vice-versa.

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