overloading operators for I/O

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:45:50 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Michiel wrote:
>>> To sum up: I love D. But I also like the streaming operator.
>> I didn't expect to convince you <g>.
> 
> Moving away from the idea of *overloading* existing operators, is there any
> case for new operators that implement I/O?

Imho the only serious reason for overloading << in C++ for I/O was the 
lack of decent variadic functions.

Andrei