[boost] Iostreams questions

From: christopher diggins (cdiggins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-01 14:14:06

Several questions,

1) There is the (apparently) undocumented pipe operator 
http://www.ootl.org/boost/iostreams/pipable.hpp.htm . What does it do 
exactly? It appears to push filters into a filtering_stream or 
filtering_streambuf, but I am unsure.

2) Can we use it to write arbitrarily long chains such as:

source | input_filter | bidirectional_filter | output_filter | sink?

3) why the name bidirectional_filter when inputoutput_filter (or io_filter) 
would be apparently more consistent with stl naming convention?

4) what is the url for the latest version and what is the status?

Thanks!

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