On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Niall Douglas
On 14 Nov 2013 at 12:20, Michael Marcin wrote:
It seems a common example for C++11 and variadic templates is a typesafe printf which is supposed to obsolete things like Boost.Format. However there doesn't seem to be one usable out of the box.
If this is really a large improvement shouldn't this facility be in boost?
VS2013 doesn't implement enough of C++11 yet to implement typesafe printf. Once it does (VS2014), I'm sure we'll see it appear somewhere (maybe in the standard library rather than in Boost. Standard libraries already define more typesafe C functions when __cplusplus is defined).
Zhihao Yuan has been working on such a proposal for the standard library. His most recent paper is http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3716.html, but he got a lot of feedback from LEWG in Chicago, so there will be major revision, presumably in time for the February meeting. --Beman