Re: [boost] Re: Thoughts on Format

From: James Kanze (kanze_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-30 18:01:53

"Stewart, Robert" <stewart_at_[hidden]> writes:

|>  From:	James Kanze [SMTP:kanze_at_[hidden]]

|>  > "Stewart, Robert" <stewart_at_[hidden]> writes:

|>  >     [...]
|>  > |>  It's a little easier to see the <<'s in the second statement
|>  > |>  than the %'s in the first.  Unfortunately, using "<<"
|>  > |>  introduces problems interacting with streams,

|>  > Is this from experience, or simply speculation?  I was worried
|>  > about the

|>  That's from empirical observation of the examples in the thread.  I
|>  looked at various examples in the various formats and made
|>  observations from what I saw.  That's not speculation, but it's not
|>  experience either.

My point was simply that this was what I had thought, too.  Until I (and
some of my customers) actually started using it.  To date, no one has
complained about the interactions with stream, and any attempts to
change to another operator have brought objections.  (In fact, the
initial implementation used operator,().  You should have heard the
objects THAT brought.)

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