How do you pronounce "cout << 5" in english? If you were to read that 
statement over the phone to someone, what would you say? Obviously not 
"cout logical-shift-left 5".  Would you really say "count 
operator-less-than-less-than five"?

Incidentally, I think C# does a good job of unifying the benefits of 
printf-style formating with the benefits of C++-style formatting. Of 
course, it means that everything you want to print actually has to be an 
object and you have to be able to look up routines at runtime, so it has 
an efficiency aspect compared to the C++ method. But there's actually a 
number of layers of formatting control going on there, all of which the 
user can override in particular classes as well as doing the
"cout << hex() << 29" sort of per-class custom formatting controls.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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