Re: New compose and format API

[Daniel Elstner <daniel kitta googlemail com>]

Am Dienstag, den 14.08.2007, 18:15 +0800 schrieb manphiz:

> I've posted an inquiry[1] on boost-devel mailing list and waiting for 
> response.
> 
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/163714

Well, judging from the reply you got, it looks like boost only uses
operator%() because variadic templates aren't supported in C++ yet:

> This stuff will all be much easier once we have variadic templates,
> i.e. you will be able to have a type-safe sprintf in C++.
> [...]
> (I imagine that this means that the operator%-style Boost.Format will
> not progress towards the standard library, but I am not in any
> position to comment on that.)

--Daniel