Christian Mayer wrote: > You have to use the I/O manipulators (Stroustrup: 21.4.6.2, page 633ff.) > like std::setprecision(). > > Compared to the fast printf syntax they are too annoying to write and > not that flexible, but they are more readable and they can be combined > to your own user defined I/O manipulators. So you can write easily very > readable code without the need to retype everything.
Just to add fuel to the fire, I will point out that this is a theoretical result. I've never once seen a complex iostream usage that I considered "readable". Formatting text is a solved problem; programmers know what they want, and they want printf. C++ tried to get fancy, and failed. Much of the same can be said for the STL; 90% of developers are never going to care about pluggable algorithms, but 100% of them want a simple hash table. Guess which they got? Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
