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From: Steve Clamage <stephen.clamage@sun.com>
Subject: Re: cout << null pointers
Date: 2000/07/15
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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?

In context, it seemed clear that it was a typo, and he meant to write
	char * q = "";
No doubt others made the same assumption. 
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