Bug in % string formatting?

[Erik Max Francis]

Michael Hudson wrote:

> Which is in turn a reason for not overloading operators too much.
> Anyone ever done this:
> 
> cout << var ? "true" : "false";
> 
> in C++?  It was *years* before I realised why that didn't work...

It's a better reason for using parentheses when you're not sure about
operator precedence.  Parentheses never hurt.

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