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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:

> Yep.  C++ streams don't have any issues with format specifiers.  As
> for the dozens more problems, you'll have to identify them.

I'll identify one, albeit a fairly minor one ... I find it a hell of a
lot simpler to control the exact format printed with printf() than with
std::setw() std::setfill() etc, and the fact that some of those carry
state around is awful.

Boost.format is a lot saner.