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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@iocane.com.au>
  To  : Jason Tan <jason@rebel.rebel.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:52:51 +0930

Re: A view on MS and licencing ...

"Jason Tan" <jason@rebel.rebel.net.au> wrote:

>> Oh, it works, but you can printf() in C++ as well - my point was
>> that if you were going to do a C++'ism, may as well go all the
>> way (hmm, there's a catchy slogan ...) as Bjarne intended.

> I think endl will do a flush() for you too, so I think there is a sematnic
> difference as well as syntactic one.

Quite possibly, or maybe not, as the newline normally invokes an
implied flush under the standard C library as well (depending on
your output device, if it be file or tty).  To whit, 'printf("hi");
sleep(10); printf("\n");' produces the entire "hi\n" after 10 seconds.
Either way, it's one of those unexpected side-effects (for C or C++)[1].

Hmmm.  Friends don't let friends do member functions or look at their
private parts[2] (or friends don't let friends get Friends haircuts).

Regards,
  Daryl Tester

[1]  I'm babbling.  Blame lack of sleep and a deficient caffeine gland.
[2]  Old C++ joke, kinda like myself.

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