Hi

Why does in forthcoming C++0x, basic_ostream not have pcount() member function?
It gives the count of how many unformatted bytes were written out -
which could be less that what was asked for if disk is full,
say.

This would be symmetic to to basic_istream having gcount and is
roughly equivalent to C's stdio function fread()/fwrite()'s
return values.

I find it distinctly odd that

basic_istream has gcount()

and

strstreambuf has pcount()
strstream has pcount()
ostrstream has pcount()

but

basic_ostream has no equivalent pcount()
strstreambuf has no equivalent gcount()
strstream has no equivalent gcount()
istrstream has no equivalent gcount()

All very unsymmetrical

Thanks

Stephen Howe

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