MW>Jerry Jankura wrote in a message to Mike Walker:
MW> JJ> Mike - Let me offer a few advantages of stream I/O
MW>The notation looks a little strange at first. Expecially for someone not 
used
MW>to C++ yet. :-) Can you tell me what you mean by "in-core" storage? Are 
ou
MW>refering to writting to memory?
You're correct on both counts - in-core storage is writing to a memory
buffer (but doesn't using the term "in-core storage" sound better?) and
the idea of using the left and right shift operators to insert and
extract characters from a stream first looks strange.
MW>So then if I was displaying a user defined record of some kind I could 
extend
MW>cout to display/store my record type? This sounds pretty pretty neat, I'll
MW>have to look into this a little.
Yep, if you write an insertion operator for an object, you can insert it
into a stream just like you do a character or integer. But, the trick to
remember is that you MUST write the operator.
MW>Really I did not realize the stdio was parsed at run time. This would be a
MW>definate plus for stream io wouldn't it?
I think so. Also, one fellow also mentioned that you can't run into
problems caused by pushing the wrong kind of data onto the stack for the
format expression.
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