Re: [boost] Review : format2, yet another 'printf class'

From: Greg Chicares (chicares_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-30 21:08:10

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> 
> My main problem with '%' is that it's not an idiomatic C++, at
> least not yet :). Also, using of '$' in format specification,
> but '%' when providing arguments seems inconsistent.

Is it a (different) problem that dollar-sign is not part
of the language's basic source character set (2.2/1) ?
If that character is unavailable on, say, an Icelandic
keyboard, then there's no trigraph for it either. Would
a library that needs dollar-sign be acceptable in ISO C++?