[C++-sig] Just about to release

Stefan Seefeld seefeld at sympatico.ca
Wed Oct 9 22:12:55 CEST 2002


David Abrahams wrote:

> I agree that it would help if the tutorial docs mentioned explicitly
> that operator<< is used by the method defined by
> def(str(self)). However, the tutorial is definitely /not/ supposed to
> provide insight into how things are implemented.

Well, you expect users to provide 'operator <<', so you should
state that 'str' depends on it. That's more than an implementation
issue.

Regards,
		Stefan








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