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I have no idea if there's a `proper' convention for that or not, but I
generally treat "cout" as a verb and would just say "cout five".
Darren New wrote:
> 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.
>
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