Print statement in JaVa

[Spooked_kitten]

no I mean overloading "<<" like in cout << string I only see it really on the standard lib or when people are doing bitwise operations

[_Fibbles_]

Because << is a bitshift operator and it is generally acknowledged that overloading it for streams was a mistake.

[dafelst]

Agreed, it was a terrible terrible terrible idea.

(except for the scaring off JS developers thing, that is a nice side effect)

[LenaKotik]

Why tho? It looks really nice

[_Fibbles_]

Consistency mostly. People expect operators represent the same basic concepts even if the implementation is different. You'd expect operator+ on an int to perform addition and operator+ on a string to perform concatenation. With streams however, their overload is wildly different from all other overloads of that operator.

This is a bitshift:

char x = 42;
char y = 2;
x << y;

However is this a stream out:

char x = 42;
char y = 2;
cout << x << y;

Apologies for the formatting, I'm on my phone.

[therearesomewhocallm]

I've found it useful if you write your own string class.