🚀 go-pugleaf

Pablo Halpern wrote:
> I really don't see why the committee is so
> resistant to this concept. I think the following would be a perfectly
> satisfactory usage:
> 
>    class istream : public ...
>    {
>      ...
>      explicit operator bool() const;
>      ...
>    };
> 
>    void f()
>    {
>      while (bool(cin))
>        // do something
>    }

There's an awful lot of code out there that says "while (cin) ...", and 
no one wants to rewrite it all just to coax it through the new compiler. 
That's probably the reason.

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Ciao,
Paul D. DeRocco
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