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To me there are basically two reasons that make newl desirable beside the formatting issue.[SNIP]
2. IIUC the difference between a character and a manipulator is that the manipulator is not tied to the streams character type. So for some applications '\n' does not suffice. To me stream.widen('\n') is sufficiently ugly to justify a newl modifier.
Actually, that reason isn't accurate. The '\n' is an expression of type char, and all output streams can print a char object with operator <<, even if the stream's character type isn't char. (The stream will secretly call the widen member function.) Unlike using a manipulator, printing a character this way also activates all the formatting considerations.
Daryle
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