[Box Backup-dev] Getting trunk ready for release

[Gary]

Martin,

> Streams are about the only place where it works, and then only
> because they are absolutely endemic. Everyone knows exactly 
> what they do, no surprises.

Well said, everyone knows the <<, >> stuff so well that one rarely runs
into any other functionality other than serialization. When it comes to
the "general" topic of operator overloading, I wouldn't agree, ==,=,<
are wonderful for, say, GUID/FILETIME wrappers to establish equality,
ordering, etc.

> Not for ints, or floats, or most kinds of data types. Works for
> strings though, but doesn't give any formatting control. Not 
> really an option.

Well, one could try to:

ostream::write((char*) &fValue, sizeof(float)/sizeof(char));

...but that's a horrible way to do it. I think Chris was right: when it
comes to streams, the operators just HAVE to be used.

Gary


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