Re: [Boost-users] begin (cout) or boost::copy to cout

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] begin (cout) or boost::copy to cout
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-13 17:59:25

AMDG

On 09/13/2011 02:35 PM, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
> == The Problem ==
> 
> Boost.Range defines boost:: begin to give you the iterator to every possible 
> container — except ostream.
> 

Why is this a problem? An ostream is not a container.
Neither of your proposed solutions make ostream
a valid range, so overloading boost::begin is
just confusing.  I don't see what the problem
with just using std::ostream_iterator directly is.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe