[Haiku-commits] r21355 - in haiku/trunk: headers/os/interface src/kits/interface

[Ingo Weinhold]

On 2007-06-09 at 21:30:28 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld at pinc-software.de> 
wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <bonefish at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
[...]
> > BTW, I'm generally not very fond of the PrintToStream() methods. I'd
> > rather
> > like to see a Java style "BString ToString()" or "void
> > ToString(BString&)"
> > method, or even a (non-member) "<<" BString operator.
> 
> Definitely agreed; even a PrintToStream(int fd) would be much better,
> but I like your suggestions better. The << has the disadvantage of not
> being able to access any private data - if that really is a
> disadvantage in this use case (probably not with any sane class).

A member function the additional advantage, that we could make it virtual. 
This way you can get a human-readable info for an object, of which you 
don't even know the exact type.

CU, Ingo