[boost] Re: Re: OutFmt library implementation questions

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-23 16:13:23

> The formatob_t class - to which you refer to - does need to forward the
> 'format' functions because it is defined as:
>
>     template< class FormatObject >
>     class formatob_t: public FormatObject
>     {
>        inline formatob_t & format( const DelimiterType & s )
>        {
>           FormatObject::format( s ); // return type == FormatObject
>           return( *this );
>        }
>     };

Why do you bother what FormatObject::format( s ) returns? It may as well be
void for what I care. Above method format implementation will allow you to
chain format calls in any case. It's so obvious that I feel like there is
some miscommunication here.

Gennadiy.