On 6/26/2013 2:47 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I have been an adept of iostreams since day one and never understood why people complain so much about them or the operator<< and operator>> for that matter.
Even if you can get past the execrable look of it, it suffers from at least 3 terrible technical problems:
1. not thread safe 2. not exception safe3. having to acquire/release mutexes for every << operation rather than once for the whole expression