Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> It seems that streams at least signal errors by altering the stream 
> object and getting the programmer to call a member function to check 
> whether an error condition occurred. Is that a usual C++ idiom?

  I'm not sure there *is* any "usual" C++ idiom for error handling
(other than throwing exceptions).

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                                                          - Warp

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