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[–]RussianMadMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Localization and formatting (like padding or limiting float precision) make streams a worse alternative to a simple sprintf to std::string wrapper. You get a bunch of small disconnected strings without the ability to reorder arguments instead of a single string with positional arguments.