id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 6553 Boost.Format - format object implicitly converts to string mpbecey7gu@… James E. King, III As discussed on boost-users, it is desirable to have formatter objects implicitly convert to string. This is trivial to enable, and I have attached the modified file. I would hope that this gets accepted into the development branch. Patches closed To Be Determined format Boost 1.47.0 Not Applicable wontfix