I'm curious, why overload the & operator for stream functions? The STL use of >> and << is weird enough but at least we are all used to it by now. Or am I mis

I'm curious, why overload the & operator for stream functions? The STL use of >> and << is weird enough but at least we are all used to it by now. Or am I misunderstanding something? Looks pretty cool overall, especially the RPC stuff.