Re:Re: [boost] Re: FORMAL review of "Output Formatters" - votes needed

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-27 15:19:20

Reece wrote:

>Roland Richter wrote:
> John Torjo wrote:
> 

>>  The dilemma I see is that the outfmt library is somewhere  between 
>> serialization (boost::serialization) and pretty-printing  
>> (boost::format). IMO, outfmt provides *both* at a basic level  in that 
>> it simply adds streaming operators <<  and >> to STL  containers, 
>> which, for some reason, are currently missing.

What advantages does using the output formatters for output/input have over
using the serialization library to do the same thing?

Robert Ramey