Carlo Wood wrote:
While having streambuf_facade is DEFINITELY a good idea, I think you should have an "Advanced" section, where you talk about the streambufs. The rest of us are quite happy with having and using stream_facade.
I get the impression that most of the reviewers have an objection against the uses of streams. The consensus seems to be that the library should restrict itself to a (binary)
Why binary? I could see lots of uses for text as well. My favorite is: write a text that is to be formatted by columns. Every time you write a tab, you go to next column. At the sink' construction, specify how many spaces each column has, and when you receive a tab, fill the rest of the column with spaces.
streambuf interface. Almost everyone has complained one way or the other about the mixup of streams versus streambufs.
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