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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Why does this code fails?
Date: 11 Mar 2004 11:19:59 GMT
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Anthony <akantsel AT integra DOT rmt DOT ru> wrote:

> Why doesn't convertion by default work? 

Because there's no particular reason it should.  Your new class
"mystream" has no relation to the standard C++ library classes, and
thus it inherits none of their overloaded operators.

> How to make it work with no cast-ing?

> The goal is to have a global static reference to a stream, where some code
> can do output and another code can change this output destanation, like make
> it go to cout, then after sometime to a file stream, etc. Is there better
> way to do this than this code?

Just make a global pointer to an object of type ostream and overwrite 
what that points to, if you have to.


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