overloading operators for I/O

[Michiel]

> > It would just be good if there was a standard and universally recognizable way to
> > do it.
> >
> > A standard abstract class for message-sending that you can subclass. With standard
> > subclasses for std-out, std-err, std-in, file-out and file-in.
>
> Have you looked at Tango's IO classes?  I think Tango has that pretty
> much.

I had actually not. :)

I'll look into that, thanks. I still think it deserves to be in the standard
library, though.