30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
2:30 p.m.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:35:12 +0400, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
While it's generally considered a bad practice to provide implicit conversions, I think it would be good to provide such a conversion for the boost::format class. Currently, I can't write:
string s; s = format("%1%") % 10;
and need to write
s = (format("%1%") % 10).str();
Maybe it's specifics of my code, but I can count 10 such conversions in a single source file. I think that:
1. Calling .str() is rather inconvenient.
Is the free-function syntax str (format (...)) more palatable? -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com