On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:56 PM, John M. Dlugosz <mpbecey7gu@snkmail.com> wrote:
Would it go over well if we _removed_ the ability for ostream to take a formatter without an extra function call?
Probably not. Why break old code?
After all, you could use str for that too! My impression is that the ostream use-case was thought about, but the exception case was not. I do admit that for a named string variable, initializing it using free-function str isn't too bad.
But it could be better.
I've submitted a changed file (one line added, plus comments) as Ticket #6553. As far as I know, other threads have just complained about the lack and lamented it. So let's _do_ it already. Is there a committee, an official owner of that component, or what? How do we get that change accepted in the official build?
That might a bit problematic. :p Samuel Krempp is listed as the author of that lib. -- Olaf