Re: RFC 159 (v1) True Polymorphic Objects

[Tom Christiansen]

>You could overload 
>       FILE < STRING
>to be a print operator returning a FILE so we can do C++ like  
>       cout << "hello Bjarne" <<eol;

That would be--and always has been--pretty darned horrible.  You've
managed to hide the verb completely.  It's much clearer when it
command verb is in the normal imperative position: put it there,
then see what I mean. :-)

--tom