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- From: a036450@rd821.UUCP (Bob Goldrich)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Just what is so great about streams?
- Message-ID: <148@rd821.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:51:39 GMT
- Organization: The Gleason Works, Rochester New York
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- I, too, believe that the iostreams, while adding type checking and
- extensibility, have lost conciceness. A simple printf like:
- printf("%6.2lf %0d %5.1lf\n", adoub, aint, bdoub) ;
- turns into a rather unwieldy piece of code. The stream libraries would
- have been much more useful had their designers attempted to retain some
- of printf's "quick-and-dirty" syntax.
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- Probably the biggest problem is that I haven't seen any *good* comprehensive
- documentation on the stream libraries, with examples, etc, etc.
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- Bob Goldrich a036450@rd821.gleason.com
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