Re: We have a new standard!

Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:
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Plus overloading << and >> was a cretinous decision. There was zero reason
he couldn't have created some new operators to avoid confusion, <<< and >>>
or <= , => for example where such combinations in C would never be legal
syntax anyway.

<= is already an operator.  <<< and >>> are not, but at least >>>
exists in some other languages, which could lead to confusion
(admittedly that's not a very strong argument).

I wouldn't have minded having new operators for I/O, but I'm not sure
what characters would have been used.  Perhaps something involving
"@"?

In any case, I don't see the overloading of << and >> for I/O as
a big problem.  The predecence is a bit funny, but that can be
addressed with parentheses.  Visually, << and >> show the direction
in which the data is flowing.  (The statefulness of C++ streams is
deeply annoying, though.)

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