Re: [boost] Review request : format

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-21 21:04:55

At 05:47 PM 12/20/2001, Samuel Krempp wrote:

 >George A. Heintzelman's msg# 21946  phrased it better than I would be
 >able to.
 >
 >Whatever you do, it won't be a true manipulator (since everything is
 >held inside ou object, not the stream)
 >
 >Whatever you do, it won't always act like a manipulator in _all_
 >situations.
 >
 >The most extreme example was already given :
 >
 >cout << format("%2 %1");
 >cout << x << y;

I saw that in George's message, and think that it is a killer argument 
against the manipulator-like approach.

Thus I'm converted to the string-builder view.

Please include the above example as Rationale in your documentation.

Thanks,

--Beman