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From: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: ostream_with_assign versus specialization of cout?
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.175438.12843@odi.com>
Date: 19 Dec 89 17:54:38 GMT
Reply-To: benson@odi.com ()
Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA
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I've got a derived class of ostream that internally sets the unitbuf
flag. I tried

   cout = one_of_my_streams;

The operator= goes and reinitializes the stream, clearing the 
crucial flag (unitbuf). If operator= is going to do this,
it seems that cout should have been a pointer. As it is,
one can't make cout be another type, it seems.

-- 
Benson I. Margulies