Re: [boost] Report from Berlin C++ Standards Committee meeting

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-11 15:00:33

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Jeff Garland <jeff_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>>> Sounds good.  I am worried that even with the iostream integration
>>> the proposal won't have Doug's one-line wget implementation, but
>>> we'll see. 
>> 
>> Fortunately, Doug wrote "one slide," not "one line."
>
>     std::ifstream is( "http://www.example.com/file.zip" );
>     std::ofstream os( "file.zip" );
>     os << is.rdbuf();
>
> No proposal required, in principle.

Except that any code involving an identifier spelled "rdbuf" fails the
"do the obvious thing in an obvious way" test.

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Dave Abrahams
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