"Martin" <adrianm@touchdown.se> wrote in message news:loom.20041108T084035-80@post.gmane.org...
Just a small question.
Why didn't you use a custom locale facet (e.g. sequence_punct) instead of the punctuate object.
With the current implementation you need to have access to the stream to be able to specify the format.
Originally, I was undecided about whether to use facets or pword, so I provided two implementations and a preprocessor symbol BOOST_FORMAT_LITE_USE_PWORD which the user could define. At some point, I decided it was bad manners to keep changing a stream's locale. By the way, there would be one facet for each selector, e.g., sequence_punc< vector<_>, char >.
If a facet is used you can use the formatter with lexical_cast and the program options library.
I'm not yet familiar with the program options library. With lexical_cast, there's no way to specify a locale, so I guess you're talking about setting the global locale. Right? I'm afraid this might be bad manners, too. Mybe I can provide both options. Jonathan