On Monday, March 28th, 2022 at 2:18 PM, Tim Song via Lib-Ext <lib-ext_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> In one of our codebases, where formatting started with iostreams and gradually shifted to {fmt}, there are lots of code of the form:
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> struct A {int a; int b;friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, A const& a) {fmt::print(os, "{{a={}, b={}}}", a.a, a.b);return os;}};
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> This seems like a perfectly valid way to implement operator<< to me - except that it doesn't work if fmt::print (and now std::print) can sometimes bypass things in os's buffer. With iostreams in particular, << naturally encourages writing partial lines:
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> A a{2, 4};std::cout << "A is " << a << '\n'; // might print "{a=2, b=4}A is "

Looks unsurprising to me if it prints"A is {a=2, b=4}"; the use of ostreamoverload of std::print has opt-in thestreams mechanism. This guaranteelooks more motivating that the casediscussed in P2539.

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