[Box Backup-dev] Getting trunk ready for release

[Ben Summers]

On 15 Dec 2005, at 16:34, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>>>> At some point it needs to be ostreamed.
>>
>>> I trust this won't involve nasty operator overloading fo I/O. :-)
>>
>> LOL
>
> Is it even possible to use ostream sensibly without operator<<? My C 
> ++ book says it's the only defined interface for writing formatted  
> output to an ostream.

Wonderful. So some stupid example in a textbook just to demonstrate  
that operator overloading can be used to do things other than the  
operations that the operators imply (with all the potential for  
confusion, bugs, etc that that entails) is now going to pollute this  
project with it's idiocy?

Lovely.

Ben