Re: [boost] I/O Formatting Manipulators (update)

From: Reece Dunn (msclrhd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-09 06:05:31

This is a patch to the library, until I can get CVS working. It adds several 
new features:

[1] support for boost types in pair_output (interval, rational and 
compressed_pair);
[2] static_nary_output outputter with support for quaternion and octonion - 
will add tuple support in the future
[3] formatob - support for outputting non-list objects using outputters via 
my library
[4] stl_io - optional header that supplies direct << operators for output 
streams with STL containers
[5] I have added examples for the boost types, stl_io usage and the examples 
from John Torjo's library

I am also looking at adding facilities to output just the first or second 
element of a pair (first_output and second_output).

The discussions about how to display an interval are intersting - this could 
be supported in my library via several outputters, so you could render 
[1.23, 1.24] as:
   [1.23, 1.24] -- pair_output (already implemented)
   1.2 -- may add this later
   1.235 +/- 0.005 -- where you can change how "+/-" is rendered

I am also thinking of a transform-based outputter that takes a transform 
functor and outputs the result of that transformation.

-- Reece

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