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[Paolo Carlini]

Paolo Carlini wrote:

> - I definitely suggest imbuing fstreams, *not* iostreams: the latter 
> must be
> synced with "C" stdio by default and what you can do is much more limited
> (according to the ISO standard).

Sorry for my loose words: I meant, for a start not the standard stream 
objects
(cin, cout, cerr), but rather prefer fstreams.

Alternately (as Stroustrup does ;) *also* provide operator<< and operator>>.

Paolo.