------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org 2005-01-06 14:46 ------- Giving explicit template arguments for template operators works the same way: write x.operator<< <float> (abc) instead of x << abc As for the evolution of C++: it isn't C++ but rather gcc that is evolving. The standard for C++ was finished in 1998, and since then gcc has just tried to be more standards conformant. gcc3.4 was a big step forward in this respect. W.
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