Modula2's godawful IO.

[Duke Robillard]

In article <6366 at watdragon.waterloo.edu] gjditchfield at violet.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield) writes:
]In article <547 at m10ux.UUCP] rgr at m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
]]In article <96 at lzaz.ATT.COM] bds at lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK) writes:

]]]	cout << god_awful_structure_instance;

]]Yeah, but that doesn't help me print out an error message, two strings,
]]and an integer return code.  I don't want to have to write a method
]]for every print....
]
]Neither would I.  Fortunately for us, the i/o operators can be chained.
]	cout << "Error: file " << fname << ", line " << lnum
]	     << error_msg << "\n";

    This is cool.  The syntax is a little bulky (how un-C-like) but
overall it looks good.

]I think this is a big improvement over calls to overloaded "Print" 
]procedures.

    However, I don't really see that this is any different than 
overloading a print procedure.  all you're doing is overloading "<<"
(i.e. making it handle strings, integers, reals, whatever), right?



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