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

From: Reece Dunn (msclrhd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-11 15:30:38

David Abrahams wrote:
> "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.

If the standard had an output operator for an input stream, so that line would be:

   os << is;

:) (This would be equivalent to using is.rdbuf(), hiding that away from the user who isn't familiar with stream buffers and stream implementation details.)

- Reece
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