Alter repository title or decouple from standard streams

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Alter repository title or decouple from standard streams

[c42f]

Sorry if the title misleads. However I think in this case, minimal is in the eye of the beholder. Some types of minimal I can think of include:

1. Minimal build-time?
2. Minimal lines of code?
3. Minimal build configuration for user projects?
4. Minimal new concepts for users? (eg, their existing types with operator<< defined will work without any extra effort)
5. Minimal object size?
6. Minimal binary dependencies (ie, no libstdc++) ?

I think this library does fairly well on 1-4. 5 could certainly be improved with separate compilation. 6 is not so good, as you point out.

But overall, the philosophy here is one of minimalism so I feel the summary is largely accurate.

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or even decoupled the underlying "real-output" function and make this wrapper more abstract

Regardless of quibbles of terminology, this is a decent idea and could be worth pursuing. I don't have time to do it myself, however.