Re: [boost] Re: Pretty Good Initialization Library

In-Reply-To: <200407081913.i68JD5d00852@tesh.systems.susq.com> stewart@sig.com (Rob Stewart) wrote (abridged):

I overstated the case. How many types will one have to overload operator<< (and operator>>) for? The combinatorial explosion (containers X types to use with the initialization library X 2) will be overwhelming.

You've lost me. Why does the choice of operator<<() instead of operator,() produce a combinatorial explosion of overloads? It's mostly just a change of name.

I still think of operator<< and operator>> as doing formatted I/O.

Well, at one time we all thought it did bitwise shifts. -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK