Re: [Monotone-devel] F and .str()

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:24:38AM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> In the code I sometimes see:
>     cout << (F("...") % p1 %p2...).str() << "\n";
> other times just:
>     cout << F("...") % p1 %p2... << "\n";
> I guess the second form works because the formatter object has a string
> copy constructor or something like that (?)
> Does it make any difference?

It's an "operator<<(ostream &, formatter object)" overload or
something, but yeah, if it works it should be just the same either
way.

-- Nathaniel

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