<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Douglas Alan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darkwater42@gmail.com">darkwater42@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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P.S. Overloading "left shift" to mean "output" does indeed seem a bit<br>
sketchy, but in 15 years of C++ programming, I've never seen it cause<br>
any confusion or bugs.</blockquote></div><br><br>The only reason it hasn't is because people use it in "Hello World". I bet some newbie C++ programmers get confused the first time they see << used to shift.<br>