overloading operators for I/O

[BCS]

Michiel wrote:
>>>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.
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> 
> I had actually not. :)
> 
> I'll look into that, thanks. I still think it deserves to be in the standard
> library, though.

that's what Tango is trying to be, *the* standard library.