Re: We have a new standard!

David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]

IMHO the real mistake for iostreams for formatted output was making
them modal - IO manipulators are a /terrible/ idea.

Agreed.

                                                     The type system
and overloading should have been used instead, so that we would write
:
>
cout << hex(x);
>
instead of
>
cout << hex << x << dec;

Note that the latter sets cout to decimal mode, not to whatever mode it
had before.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */