[m-rev.] for review: standalone interfaces

[Ben Schmidt]

> Also, while working on this one of the problems I ran into is that the 
> compiler
> sets the standard output stream to be different things at different points.
> This is quite confusing and extremely annoying to debug if it goes wrong.
> I would like to (a) change the compiler so that all streams are explicit
> arguments and (b) change the coding standards to say that implicit streams
> shouldn't be used.  (It's quite large change but it should be fairly 
> trivial.)
> Objections?

I have been annoyed by the same thing, and think explicit stream 
arguments are a much smarter idea.

Ben.



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