Re: [boost] Re: Formal review of "Output Formatters" library beginstoday

From: John Torjo (john.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-13 03:05:15

> 
>> Missing are Motivation and Rationale sections. When/Why would someone use
>> this library versus ostream_iterator/Tokenizer/Spirit/...
> 
> 
> ostream_iterator does not, AFAIK, handle nested constructs like 
> std::vector< std::list< int > >. Tokenizer is primarliy concerned with 
> reading data back in and I'm not sure if/how it supports containers, 
> arrays and pair/nary types.
> 
> Spirit is too complex for when you want simple formatting and is only 
> concerned with parsing (reading) data. It also adds a lot of overhead 
> and does not fit in with the C++ I/O stream framework.
> 
> Boost.Serialize does a great job, but is not very flexible in the way 
> that the data is serialized.
> 

You can add this to the docs ;)

Best,
John

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