Object Oriented Programming with C++, Second Edition

SUMMARY

• Buffered I/O means input/output where an intermediate storage (typically RAM memory) is used between source and destination. It increases the average I/O speed significantly.
• Function bad() returns true if an invalid operation is attempted or any unrecoverable error has occurred.
• cin and cout are stream objects belonging to class iostream_withassign.
• cerr is the name of standard error stream normally the screen.
• The combination of display monitor and keyboard is called console.
• Reading from keyboard and writing to monitor is known as console input/output.
• “dec” is a manipulator for specifying decimal notation. There is an ios flag with same name.
• Binary operator >> used for reading is called extraction operator. It can be imagined that ...