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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Formatted Output Revisited
Message-ID: <2177@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 17:41:55 GMT
References: <THOTH.89Oct20212523@springs.cis.ufl.edu>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
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Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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<  One possible solution is to introduce a new operator that handles
<  formatting.   . . .  Two unused ASCII characters remain:
<  `@' and `#'. So what about 
<  	cout <<4#2<<5.2#6#4;
<  or
<  	cout <<4@2<<5.2@6@4;

This is supposed to be more readable than printf? Bzzzt! Next!