On Aug 14, 12:17 pm, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid> wrote: > On 2009-08-14, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:07:31 -0700, Aahz wrote: > >> "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped > >> right there." --Steve Gonedes > > > Assuming that's something real, and not invented for humour, I presume > > that's describing something possible in C++. Am I correct? > > Yes. In C++, the "<<" operator is overloaded. Judging by the > context in which I've seen it used, it does something like > write strings to a stream. There's a persistent rumor that it is *this* very "abuse" of overloading that caused Java to avoid operator overloading all together. But then then Java went and used "+" as the string concatenation operator. Go figure! |>ouglas P.S. Overloading "left shift" to mean "output" does indeed seem a bit sketchy, but in 15 years of C++ programming, I've never seen it cause any confusion or bugs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
