Whither Tango?

[Mike James]

Michel Fortin Wrote:

> On 2010-02-20 23:21:01 -0500, "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> said:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 09:11:32PM -0500, Michel Fortin wrote:
> >> I'd say go with just "format". That'd make the fully qualified name is
> >> "std.string.format", no need to repeat "string" a second time, even if
> >> it's just an "s".
> > 
> > There's already a format() function - it returns a dynamically allocated
> > string for the result.
> > 
> > The difference with sformat() is it takes a buffer in, instead of allocating
> > its own. The only use for sformat that I can think of over regular format()
> > is to boost performance in certain special cases; it wouldn't be used
> > regularly.
> 
> Ah, I see. Normally, that'd be a great case for overloading, but format 
> being variadic and accepting any argument type makes this impractical.
> 
> I'd say "formatInBuffer" looks like a viable alternative. It's clear, 
> it's also longer but assuming its use is sparse a descriptive name 
> might be beneficial.
> 
> -- 
> Michel Fortin
> michel.fortin at michelf.com
> http://michelf.com/
> 

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-=mike=-