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

Ion Gaztañaga wrote:

-> Hard formatting: printf/scanf are much easier to use and they don't need several hundred of function calls to do their job. The operator<< overloading is also a problem if each call needs some internal locking. A formatting syntax that can minimize the locking needs would be a good choice. I would be really happy with a type-safe printf (variadic templates to the rescue).

Something that would use meta-programming to optimize the generation of the formatted string would be way better than printf.