Re: [boost] Check out iostate.zip 2

From: Jens Maurer (Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-01 15:32:13

dwalker07 wrote:
> 
> It's at:
> 
>     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/iostate.zip
> 
> It is just a bunch of state-saving classes for I/O streams.  The
> latest version moves the classes to the boost::io namespace. 

This appears to be reasonable, since we may have a bunch of other
I/O stuff soon.

I think the classes are useful; I've often had the need to
temporarily switch the precision (or the fmtflags) and restore
the old value afterwards.  Often, I don't do it in an
exception-safe way out of lazyness.  These classes help me
here.

I've had a quick look at the implementation.  I'd really
like to see these macros go away.  I believe they can be
replaced by templates that take (among other things)
member function pointers as value parameters.

I'd like to see this investigated.

Jens Maurer