From 2981735355804882844 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,53d56717e82ab663 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Barry Margolin Subject: Re: cout << null pointers Date: 2000/07/14 Message-ID: <6lnb5.22$BL6.839@burlma1-snr2>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 646124002 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ References: <39656D42.E049FCAA@ix.netcom.com> <396DFE0F.E1F0D885@myview.de> X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 963533359 mail2news:13517 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: Genuity, Cambridge, MA X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Copies-To: never NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:52:02 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ In article <396DFE0F.E1F0D885@myview.de>, Robert Klemme wrote: > > >Paul Meyerholtz schrieb: >> >> I have found an inconsistent output by various compilers of the following: >> >> char * p = 0; >> cout * q = ""; > >nobody seemed to complain about this line of code. what the heck is >type 'cout'? is this really the code you provided the compiler with? It's obviously a type for: char * q = ""; If the other respondents noticed it, they didn't bother commenting on it and just assumed the intended declaration. It's certainly clear from the context that this is what was intended. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Burlington, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]