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

From: Kevlin Henney (kevlin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-03-07 14:46:36

In message <7D72C1B2F7A3D21191F8006097149AC0A89EFC_at_[hidden]>,
Borgerding, Mark A. <MarkAB_at_[hidden]> writes
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>Does anyone else have a strong opinion about commas?

Yes: no.

For many of the same reasons you have outlined: operator, is already
defined for all types in the language and is too error prone -- it is
exactly the kind of thing that falls foul of individual formatting
preferences. Other operators are clearer and more robust, even if a
little less pleasing to the eye.

FWIW, it seems that retrospectively Bjarne questions the basic wisdom of
allowing overloading of operator, (Design & Evolution of C++, p247).
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