overloading operators for I/O

[Bill Baxter]

Michiel wrote:
>> This can be done using variadic functions or tuples.
> 
> 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.

--bb