> If I want the stream flushed I'll configure it to behave as such or I'll call flush explicitly. Any other mindset belongs in Python, Java or some other higher

> If I want the stream flushed I'll configure it to behave as such or I'll call flush explicitly. Any other mindset belongs in Python, Java or some other higher level language. This is a bit unfair to HLLs, IMO. Flushing to disk can add unacceptable overhead even for, say, Python. (Particularly on spinning rust, but...). The short and long of it is that "endl" should probably be deprecated in the standard and a good replacement created. ("std::newline"? Maybe we could just specify it as "\n" and get rid of the whole text/binary distinction that another poster on this topic was rightly complaining about.)