>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> It looks to me like you're describing formatting flags (iomanip Angus> thingies) rather than member functions as they affect only the Angus> next piece of input rather than everything thereafter. You are right. Angus> They are actually dead easy to implement. Below is the g++ Angus> implementation of 'setw' Urgh. You meant dead unreadable, right? Angus> However, I don't think that we need to define a new Angus> olatexstream with member functions unwantedligature() etc. That Angus> would be difficult because sometimes we'd want olatexstream to Angus> derive from ofstream, sometimes from ostringstream, etc. I planned to use the basic stupid way of passing a ostream in the constructor as the underlying stream. Angus> For the way forward, see Angus> http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=171014&seqNum=2 It looks a bit like a hack, don't you think? Especially since I need more that longs and casting all over the place is ugly. Or I could use this long to a pointer (is this always possible) to a structure containing my entries. JMarc
