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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 20:36:01 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Frank Nobis <fn@radio-do.de>
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Subject: Re: Weired c++ behaviour regarding iostreams
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On 18 Dec 1996, Frank Nobis wrote:

>   ifstream	file;

...

>   file.ifstream("stream1.cc");

It works if you combine these to:

  ifstream file("stream1.cc");

Off the top of my head, the original looks a bit suspicious,
calling a constructor after the object is already constructed,
but I'm a C++ novice...

The original bit of code wouldn't even compile on SunPRO CC:

"stream1.cc", line 19: Error: ifstream is not a member of ifstream.

-john