From: jon_bills AT hotmail DOT com (Jon Bills)
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Subject: Re: More out from "cout"....
Date: 8 Oct 2001 15:05:49 -0700
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"Traveler" <traveler AT netti DOT fi> wrote in message news:<9psq7l$snm$1 AT tron DOT sci DOT fi>...
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> 
> Well, I am impressed !!! You certainly know your trade !
> 
> It was refreshing to read for someone to defend his (her) points of view 
> with an detailed example and not just with a few comments like "Why do 
> you not use this thing or that thing ?" or "I know a better way but Im 
> not showing how...nah,nah".

You have encountered a "problem" with C++ and invented your own
solution rather than use what is presented by the Standard Library. If
you want to popularise that solution, then the onus is on you to
demonstrate the weaknesses of the library version and how your
solution overcomes those weaknesses.

I very much doubt that your solution will carry much weight over one
which has been designed by the very best C++ developers in the
industry and tested by many thousands of programmers over the last few
years. You rebutted Cameron's solution because you didn't find the
syntax aesthetically pleasing. Have you bothered to find out what lies
beneath the code Cameron presented? I suspect not.

The STL features that both Cameron and I mentioned are very well
documented. If you don't want to put in the effort to investigate
those features, why should we put in any effort to demonstrate them?

Jon.