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From: marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Better Encapsulation: Overload Keywords
Message-ID: <1072@dumbcat.sf.ca.us>
Date: 28 Jun 91 05:46:44 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.223737.31644@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991Jun25.224022.20072@alias.com>
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In article <1991Jun25.224022.20072@alias.com> rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis) writes:
 > This can easily be accomplished right now by providing an "operator
 > void *" method, like the iostream classes do.  This is why you can say:
 > 
 > 	while(cin)
 > 	{
 > 		cin >> buf;
 > 		// etc..
 > 	}

Many have recommended overloading void * to do this instead of overloading int
(which happens to be my favorite).   Is there a particular reason for
prefering void * to int?

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