[boost] Re: String formatting library: interest?

From: David B. Held (dheld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-30 16:17:59

"Martin Fuchs" <martin-fuchs_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:0c3501c2081f$22a3be40$06005d86_at_m686mx...
> [...]
> The main argument for a C++ formating library, I think, is the missing
type
> safeness of printf()-like functions using ellipse parameters.
>
> The same is true for scanf(). So here a replacement using C++ might be
> equally interesting.

I would imagine that there is no corresponding library because of the
vast number of ways to validate and transform input, from the low-level
tokenizer library all the way up to full parsing with semantic expressions,
etc.

Dave