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

14 Oct 2006


      Hi,

You might want to look at the "current" discussion in boost.devel regarding
super_string, which internally uses boost.format but it allows you to do

something like:

super_string s;
s.format("%1% %2%", int(10), float(10.20));

Thanks
Shams

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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.
ISUN,
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