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Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns?

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On 08/23/11 08:50 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Ian Collins<ian-news@hotmail.com>  writes:
>> That doesn't answer my question, when interacting with a user, have you
>> ever seen a case where a flush is detrimental to the operation of a program?
>
>    I have not investigated this question.
>
>    C++ is hard, large, and complex but fast. One uses C++, when
>    programs need to run fast. Otherwise, other programming languages
>    are more efficient in terms of programming effort and provide
>    better security.
>
>    Console dialogs with users do not need a fast programming
>    language, since they wait for user input most of the time
>    anyways.
>
>    Since C++ is already optimized to enable the best run-time
>    efficiency, even when this means, that programming becomes
>    more difficult, usually a programming styles that cares for
>    run-time efficiency is more adopted to the language.

That's a very long winded way of saying you haven't.

So you agree that using std::endl is preferable to '\n' when outputting 
text to be read by a user?

-- 
Ian Collins

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cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? mrc2323@cox.net (Mike Copeland) - 2011-08-20 20:49 -0700
  Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-08-20 21:12 -0700
    Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-21 17:21 +1200
  Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-21 17:20 +1200
    Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Eugén Jung <contact@eugenjung.tk> - 2011-08-21 23:19 +0100
      Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-22 11:38 +1200
        Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-23 07:34 +1200
          Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-08-22 15:54 -0400
          Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-23 08:02 +1200
            Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-23 08:39 +1200
              Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-23 08:57 +1200
                Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Paul <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-08-23 02:47 -0700
              Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 08:07 -0700
        Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 08:00 -0700
    Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-22 06:13 +0000
      Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-08-22 10:49 -0700
        Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-23 07:01 +0000
          Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-24 07:11 +0100
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