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Re:Pprint: Pretty Printer for Modern C++ by rsynnott on Monday April 29, 2019 @07:24PM (#19783590)
Yeah, I always wondered was << just an ill advised attempt to show off operator overloading (I’m sure things had it before C++, but it definitely wasn’t commonplace). It never made much sense to me.
Re:Pprint: Pretty Printer for Modern C++ by kabdib on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:05PM (#19784493)
They were adding features to the language (e.g., "Koenig lookup") in the CFront era to accommodate iostreams.

I was sad that they were spending a bunch of resources on that relatively useless stuff, rather than a sorely needed set of standard collection classes, not to mention a string class. And by "standard" I don't mean actual standards -- it was far too early in the game for that -- but even just enough to get by.

Re:Pprint: Pretty Printer for Modern C++ by dearrifling on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @05:52AM (#19786478)
ADL is important for customization points in modern C++.