[boost] Re: Interest in custom numeric formatting?

From: Stefan Slapeta (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-07 04:36:35

tom brinkman wrote:

> Check out ::strfmon
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strfmon.html
> 
> [...]

Very nice, _but_

- it's quite restricted to currencies, which is of course an obvious
   application of numeric formatting, but by far not the only one!

- this approach opens another way of numeric formatting and is in no way
   compatible with the common numeric formatting syntax of other
   languages/spreadsheets etc.

- It's a solution for C, not for C++.

However, I think I like the alignment feature; I'm just not sure at the 
moment if it's the trouble...

Stefan