From 5dca8bbc05d007fec0f46b1d871241ecac48a77c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Heltai <luca.heltai@sissa.it>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:00:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] change log

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+New: The new namespace Patterns::Tools contain now some 
+utilities that can be used to Convert from complicated types
+to strings and vice versa. These tools have been put to use
+in the method ParameterHandler::add_parameter() that allows
+users to perform in one single call the operations 
+ParameterHandler::declare_parameter(), 
+ParameterHandler::get() and to convert the string to a valid
+value stored in the variable that is given as a parameter to 
+ParameterHandler::add_parameter().
+<br>
+(Luca Heltai, 2017/07/20)
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2.39.5