Reece wrote:

Roland Richter wrote: John Torjo wrote:

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The dilemma I see is that the outfmt library is somewhere between serialization (boost::serialization) and pretty-printing (boost::format). IMO, outfmt provides *both* at a basic level in that it simply adds streaming operators << and >> to STL containers, which, for some reason, are currently missing.

What advantages does using the output formatters for output/input have over using the serialization library to do the same thing? Robert Ramey