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From: jss@gold.kpc.com (Jerry Schwarz)
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Subject: Re: possible to overload << and pass an object ptr?
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Date: 29 Mar 91 02:10:01 GMT
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In article <todd.669759003@premises1.Quotron.COM> todd@Quotron.COM (Todd Booth) writes:

   *o2 << 'a'; // no problem, but ugly


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Having worked a lot with
ostream* variables I have written stuff like the above a lot and no
longer find it ugly.  I certainly wouldn't contort my class
definitions in order to avoid it.

Jerry Schwarz