Re: [boost] Re: Added I/O manipulators to sandbox

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-24 17:17:20

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On Thursday 25 July 2002 01:03, Dietmar Kuehl wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 July 2002 23:24, Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> > I get a 'No such article' error on MS OE.
> > Is there any other link?
> > I'm interested in the reasons besides different char types.
>
> It took me a few minutes to find it at google...:
> <http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=ISO-8859-1&as_umsgid=94atsm%2427u%246@n
>ews.BelWue.DE&lr=&hl=de>
>
> The other reason I came up with at this time was that the manipulator
> does not affect the 'width()' whereas inserting a plain character does
> affect it.

I think there is another good reason to have some kind of nl manipulator. It 
may well be the only way to stop programmers from using endl in the wrong 
place. I've done it for years and I still feel bad when writing '\n'.

- --Thomas

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Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Witt
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