On 2010-02-20 23:21:01 -0500, "Adam D. Ruppe" <[email protected]> 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.
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