15 Sep
2005
15 Sep
'05
12:56 a.m.
Scott Woods wrote:
3. Why ">>" and not "," (comma). Did the "set" facillity take priority or does the low precedence of comma just result in a different ugliness (sorry, not really the word I want to use :-).
You must've missed the lengthy discussion when Spirit was being reviewed. Yes, one of the main reasons is because of precedence. The ">>" has just about the right level of precedence. I would have loved to be able to use the ','. Too bad, it has the lowest precedence in C/C++, which makes it virtually useless. It even has lower precedence than the '='. Also, there's prior practice: Spirit. Cheers, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net