Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns?

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns?
Date	2011-08-23 08:02 +1200
Message-ID	<9bfqvfFs5qU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <j2s0aq$dp2$1@dont-email.me> <9bdj8eFr0aU3@mid.individual.net> <flushing-20110822202017@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <9bfpasFs5qU1@mid.individual.net> <growth-20110822214337@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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On 08/23/11 07:45 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Ian Collins<ian-news@hotmail.com>  writes:
>> Until the program grows and the user wonders why the line does not appear.
>
>    A: »Why should I use X in this program?«
>    B: »You do not actually need it in this program.
>       But if you would write another program, you would need it.
>       So you'd better start using it right now, should your
>       program ever be changed somehow into that other program.«

When interacting with a user, have you ever seen a case where a flush is 
detrimental to the operation of a program?

Sure too many flushes may cause performance penalties when wring 
gigabytes of data to a file, but when interacting with the 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
          Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 08:12 -0700

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