Re: [boost] Re: Re: Functions as Filters (was Program Reuse...)

From: christopher diggins (cdiggins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-13 10:56:56

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From: "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
>
> IMO, this is how a more realistic example would look like:
[snip]
> This is just a reflection of the general "globals are bad" principle.

Most of the application code I have seen written, does so directly to cout 
rather than to a function parameter. I also don't see any advantage to 
passing istream and ostream as function parameters, when cin and cout can be 
easily redirected using rdbuf.

Christopher Diggins
Object Oriented Template Library (OOTL)
http://www.ootl.org