Re: [boost] Boost.Format syntax

From: James Kanze (kanze_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-16 11:05:24

"Brey, Edward D" <EdwardDBrey_at_[hidden]> writes:

    [...]

|>  > I've seen % widely used for this in a number of cases.  Many of
|>  > them, of course, were probably influenced by C.  But IMHO, it has
|>  > an advantage in that it probably doesn't occur naturally in the
|>  > contexts where a format specifier would occur -- in all natural
|>  > language text, it will be preceded by a number, and how often do
|>  > you use a format specifier preceded by a number.

|>  I'm curious where else you've seen it.

One very important one just occured to me: SQL.

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