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

From: Ed Brey (brey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-03-07 09:04:12

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Steffen" <steffend_at_[hidden]>
>  >     cout << "First line\nSecond line";
>  > or one of its more readable cousins like:
>  >     cout <<
>  >         "First line" "\n"
>  >         "Second line";
>
>  ?? How does that work? Am I missing something?

String concatenation.  e.g. "ABC" "DEF" is equivelent to "ABCDEF".

This way there is only one call to operator<<(ostream, char*).  Also, the
string table is smaller since, at minimum, fewer null terminations are
needed.