Topic: iostreams (was STL: Great! But is there more?)
Author: pstemari@erinet.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Date: 1995/04/08 Raw View
In article <D6ntsM.Aup@ucc.su.OZ.AU>,
maxtal@Physics.usyd.edu.au (John Max Skaller) wrote:
[snip]
:It is bad enough to live with legacy designs like iostreams.
Eh? I've found iostreams to be quite handy and easily extensible.
Under OS where everything is a file, such as Unix, this may not
seem like such a big deal, but under MSDOS and MVS this is a very
important feature.
What don't you like about iostreams
--Paul J. Ste. Marie, pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com
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