[boost] Re: Design discussion: easy i/o

From: Dave Steffen (steffend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-03-06 16:04:06

Greg Colvin writes:
 > > Dave Abrahams writes:
 > > [...]
 > > 
 > > Personally, I've got a header file that has a bunch of nifty stream
 > > stuff; the first line is something like
 > > 
 > > const char nl='\n';
 > > 
 > > which I then use thusly:
 > > 
 > >       cout << "First line" << nl << "Second line" << nl;
 > 
 > Just to save two keystrokes?  Well, four total in this line.

 Well, it's not just the keystrokes. I didn't mind typing "endl", but
 wanted to avoid gratuitously flushing the buffer. And I find that
 "nl" is a lot easier to type than "'\n'", my fingers don't have to
 leave the home keys and all that. ;-)

 BTW this is one of the less important things we should think about
 fixing/tweaking in the streams library... I'm much more interested in
 some of the proposals for formatting. 

 We also need to have [i|o]fstreams that take the file names in
 strings and not char*'s.

 I've also been sneaking up on the notion that the distinction between
 strings and stringstreams is rather small, and maybe we should merge
 the two classes; but right now this notion is half-baked at best.

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