Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:16:12 -0600 From: mpbecey7gu@snkmail.com
I'd like to make a change to the Boost Format library, to add a conversion operator to the matching string class. It appears to have not been worked on in a number of years. Reading through the web site, I find details on how to submit new libraries, and how to edit the web page, but nothing on submitting updates to existing libraries.
How would I go about doing that, for this library in particular?
Wasn't there recently another thread about this? If you didn't read that thread, it referredto another thread from 7 years ago about the same thing. Boost.Format already provides amember function and a free function to convert a format object to a string. The conversionsthrow if the format object hasn't had all of its parameters filled in. You want to add a thirdmethod? Unlike int vs. double, a formatting object and a string are NOT conceptually the samething, so adding an implicit conversion would be bad. (Actually, we should limit implicitconversions in general; so converting weakly-connected types should definitely be out.) Daryle W.