Re: [boost] [format] please add operator String()

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

Hi,

In code like this:

std::string columns() const { return (boost::format("%7s, %7s, %7s, %7s") % "testCost" % "optimalEcr" % "efficiecyEcr" % "testCostEcr").str(); }

it is very annoying to have to put () around the whole expression and then call .str() (Just imagine that we are creating a string on the fly to a function).

Therefore I suggest that we add

operator string_type() const { return str(); }

to the interface of basic_format<>.

Any comments? You could write it as

return boost::str(boost::format("%7s, %7s, %7s, %7s") % "testCost" % "optimalEcr" % "efficiecyEcr" % "testCostEcr"); Sebastian