Re: [boost] Inquiry of standardization status of boost::format

From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-14 09:37:27

manphiz wrote:
> Due to the limitation of gettext usage with standard iostream, there's a 
> proposal to improve the case in glibmm's string implementation [1], 
> whose goals resemble boost::format very much.

This stuff will all be much easier once we have variadic templates, 
i.e. you will be able to have a type-safe sprintf in C++.  You can now 
get a version of gcc that supports them, and they should be in C++0x.  
So unless you have some very urgent reason to change immediately, I 
suggest that you wait for a bit.

(I imagine that this means that the operator%-style Boost.Format will 
not progress towards the standard library, but I am not in any position 
to comment on that.)

Regards,

Phil.