What does 'c' in 'cout' mean?

[PengYu.UT]

Hi,

I'm wondering what 'c' in "cout", "cin" mean? Does it mean "C++"? Or
the 'c' in <cassert>?

Thanks,
Peng

 

[Barry]

Hi,

I'm wondering what 'c' in "cout", "cin" mean? Does it mean "C++"? Or
the 'c' in <cassert>?

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#cout

 

[Daniel T.]

Hi,

I'm wondering what 'c' in "cout", "cin" mean? Does it mean "C++"? Or
the 'c' in <cassert>?

My guess is that it stands for "console".

 

[Alf P. Steinbach]

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I'm wondering what 'c' in "cout", "cin" mean? Does it mean "C++"? Or
the 'c' in <cassert>?

No, it's just a name prefix to avoid name collisions, I think from the
time before namespaces.

Cheers, & hth.,

- Alf

 

[undbund]

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No, it's just a name prefix to avoid name collisions, I think from the
time before namespaces.

Cheers, & hth.,

- Alf

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cout -> character out
cin -> character in

Regards

 

[sreedhar.dv]

Hi,

I'm wondering what 'c' in "cout", "cin" mean? Does it mean "C++"? Or
the 'c' in <cassert>?

Thanks,
Peng

In cout and cin the charecter "C" represents Console.

 

[Shadowman]

In cout and cin the charecter "C" represents Console.

I doubt that. It just writes to a stream; the standard output stream in
this case. That usually also happens to be a console, but that's
system-dependent.

Stroustrup claims the 'c' stands for character.

 

[Markus Moll]

I doubt that. It just writes to a stream; the standard output stream in
this case. That usually also happens to be a console, but that's
system-dependent.

Stroustrup claims the 'c' stands for character.

Which surprisingly matches wcout for wide-character output. ;-)

Markus

 

[Michael Bell]

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Shadowman wrote:

Which surprisingly matches wcout for wide-character output. ;-)

Markus

I read somewhere (but I can't find the source) that functions in C
which have been adopted into C++ have the letter 'C' put in front, so
'function' becomes 'cfunction'.

Michael Bell


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[Ian Collins]

I read somewhere (but I can't find the source) that functions in C
which have been adopted into C++ have the letter 'C' put in front, so
'function' becomes 'cfunction'.

Can you name one? Maybe you are thinking of the standard library
headers (<stdio.h> -> <cstdio>)?

 

[Pete Becker]

I read somewhere (but I can't find the source) that functions in C
which have been adopted into C++ have the letter 'C' put in front, so
'function' becomes 'cfunction'.

It's a good thing you can't find the source, 'cause it's wrong. <g> We
did that with the C header names, but not with functions or variables.

 

[Michael Bell]

In message <[email protected]>

Can you name one? Maybe you are thinking of the standard library
headers (<stdio.h> -> <cstdio>)?

Yes, you're right. I was thinking of standard library headers. But
'cout' and 'cin' seem so obviously 'out' and 'in' with a 'c' in front
that I thought the same must apply.

Michael Bell.

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