Re: [boost] String formatting library: interest?

From: Dirk Gerrits (dirkg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-13 14:28:34

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dragan Milenkovic" <tyrant_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Monday, 13 May, 2002 18:23
Subject: Re: [boost] String formatting library: interest?

> On May 12, 2002, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > cout << mystring("Hello, my name is %1 and I am %2 years
> > old").arg("Giovanni").arg(999) << endl;
> 
> Just to say that python language uses operator % for a similar thing.
> In python there is %f, %d instead of %1, but I find this more
> convenient. Still... can we use % ? :)

No offence to the python language, but arg seems a lot clearer to me
than %. Never the less, it is of course also possible to implement 
both. (Right?)

Dirk Gerrits