Re: [boost] Preminary submission: format3

From: James Kanze (kanze_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-09 10:44:22

"Rainer Deyke" <root_at_[hidden]> writes:

|>  > Okay, given the wide ranging discussion on formatting, I have
|>  > resubmitted my original format operator.  (Thus placing the
|>  > code where my mouth is.)

|>  >   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/format3/

|>  > Feedback welcome!

|>  Overall, I like.  Some comments:

|>    - The following should silently swallow the "foo" argument:

|>      cout << format("%2$s", "foo", "bar");

|>      Right now, it invokes undefined behavior.

Why not an exception?  (My own implementation treats the presence of a
%2$ without a %1$ as an error.)  Of course, he did say X/Open
compatibility, and in X/Open printf, it is undefined behavior:-).

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