[Box Backup-dev] Getting trunk ready for release

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Ben,

>>  Is it even possible to use ostream sensibly without operator<<? My C++ 
>>  book says it's the only defined interface for writing formatted output to 
>>  an ostream.
>
> Wonderful. So some stupid example in a textbook just to demonstrate that 
> operator overloading can be used to do things other than the operations that 
> the operators imply (with all the potential for confusion, bugs, etc that 
> that entails) is now going to pollute this project with it's idiocy?
>
> Lovely.

I agree with the principle of what you're saying, but I didn't write the 
STL or choose that ostream could only be used with operator<<. Do we 
really want to write our own output stream class? Blame Bjarne and the C++ 
standards group :-)

Cheers, Chris.
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