Too Slow...

[swestrup]

Having been forcefully reminded how sucky C++'s output formatting operators are to use, I started planning to write something better.

My preliminary design had one able to write something like this:

Fmt hexb("%02X");
cout << hexb % 0x12 << endl;

That seemed logical enough. While I was looking into what I would need to do to write it, I discovered it already exists. Its the format boost library. They even use operator% in the same way. The only major differences are:

1. Mine is in the design stage. Theirs exists.
2. They have a whole lot more options than I had thought of.
3. They called it format, while I called my Fmt.

Once again, I'm behind on the old innovation curve.

Comments

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

If you're about to do something clever in C++, it is usually wise to look around in Boost, chances are it's already there, peer-reviewed to hell and back, and well on it's way to becoming part of an upcoming C++ standard library.