Re: [boost] [rfc] I/O Library Design

From: Andrey Semashev (andysem_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-18 23:37:06

Lars Viklund wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:48:41PM +0400, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
>>
>> I have to admit though, that indeed formatting is not a bright side of 
>> the current IO design. I think a better set of manipulators for basic 
>> primitives should do good. There might even be a printf-like manipulator:
> 
> Do not forget about the mighty fine Boost.Format library. It's already
> in boost, and is quite capable of type safe printf-like formatting.

That's the key problem - it's like printf, thus makes extensibility for 
user-defined types difficult, if possible.

What I was talking about is the best of the two worlds - ease of 
formatting and extensibility.