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The flags are implemented as a const data member of the facet. Facets
are reference counted, and locales can share facets. Therefore changing
the flags of a facet would have effects that are hard to predict. An
alternative design would be to implement the flags using <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">ios_base</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">xalloc</span></code> and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">ios_base</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">iword</span></code>.
Then one could safely modify the flags, and one could define manipulators
that do so. However, for that to work with dynamically linked libraries,
a <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">cpp</span></code>
file would have to be added to the library. It was judged be more desirable
to have a header-only library, than to have mutable flags and manipulators.
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The facet <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">nonfinite_num_put</span></code>
throws an exception when the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">trap_infinity</span></code>
or <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">trap_nan</span></code> flag is set
and an attempt is made to format infinity or NaN. It would be better
if the facet set the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">fail</span> <span class="identifier">bit</span></code> of the stream. However, facets
derived from <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">num_put</span></code> do not have access to the stream
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