"Daryle Walker" <darylew@hotmail.com> wrote in message:
On 8/27/04 6:43 PM, "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews@kangaroologic.com> wrote:
"Rob Stewart" <stewart@sig.com> wrote in message:
I don't think many would have a hard time recognizing the parallel between "newl" and "endl." If you rename it to "newline," there's no chance of misunderstanding the manipulator, right?
I know "new_line" or "newline" would be clearer, but "newl" happens to be the same length as typing in ['\n'] or ["\n"], four characters. If I change "skipl" to "skip_line", I should do the same to "newl" to be consistent.
Repeating myself a bit, I like nelwine/newlines, skip_line/skip_lines.
I think someone (Paul?) did a performance test during last year's review. I don't recall how it turned out.
At any rate, you and Reece have convinced me that my rejection of some of
I'd like to see it. I remember some on comp.lang.c++ claimed to have done some performance tests on this or a related issue, but it turned out he was using test files consisting entirely of newlines. ;-) the
manipulators was rash. I'm still not sure about ios_form; I'd like to hear Daryle's rationale.
I've read Stroustrup's C++ book (third edition) a lot. A lot of submission ideas come from examples in his book. The form class was one of them. I realized that packaging a set of formatting changes for later and/or repeated use could be helpful (e.g. tables).
Defintely explain this in the docs. Jonathan