Re: [Boost-users] Is it a good style about boost::format(format-string) % arg1 % arg2 % ... % argN

From: james.jones_at_[hidden]
Date: 2006-10-13 12:16:52

I wrote:
> I don't think it is or should be a primary design goal of programming in any
> language to make things easy for beginners. There are all sorts of more
> important goals that come first.

Reading this over again I don't think I said this very well.

What I mean is: It's good if the programming *language* makes things somewhat easy for beginners, or else we'll never get beginners. You can't be a master without at some point being a beginner.

However, that doesn't mean that any particular library needs to be coded in such a way as to be understandable by beginners. Good libraries are often going to use powerful, advanced features of the language that beginners won't understand.

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