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Re: string.h included in iostream


From: Jens Theisen
Subject: Re: string.h included in iostream
Date: 16 Oct 2006 22:53:33 +0100
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red floyd <no.spam@here.dude> writes:

> >   My question is is it a standard behavior ? Should string.h be
> > included in iostream ?
> >
> 
> I believe that's implementation dependent.  Your code, as posted, is
> ill-formed (index is undefined).  As far as I can see, ISO/IEC
> 14882:2003 provides no guarantees as to what nested includes are in
> any standard header (hence the technical need to include <ostream> for
> cout).

The more interesting question is if it is even legal to clutter the
global namespace with such identifiers - let alone all the macros
dragged in.

-- 
Cheers, Jens


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