Re: [eigen] iostream

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I guess that the idea is that not all users of Eigen are using
iostream at all, so those who don't use it shouldn't have to pay a
significant cost for it.

Benoit

2010/2/9 Markus Moll <markus.moll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi
>
> On Tuesday 09 February 2010 06:09:57 Benoit Jacob wrote:
>> I just found this:
>>
>> http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#ll_iostream
>>
>> Maybe we have to give up the convenience of having Eigen including
>>  iostream?
>
> Hm... how does that affect Eigen? Personally, I wouldn't consider the extra
> amount of work to construct the iostream objects critical for most
> applications. Furthermore, I do not even see why _not_ including <iostream>
> would prevent the io objects from being created (it doesn't say that anywhere
> in the standard, afaik).
> (There is another issue with <iostream> basically only declaring std::cin and
> the like in C++98, but this is an acknowledged defect)
>
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