No, std::cout is a variable.Originally Posted by Ewiv
No, std::cout is a variable.
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O_oOn a side note, stop using: I don't understand why books insist in teaching students this terrible practice.
So instead you spread the opposite advice which equally awful?
Without using directives, `namespace' would be no different than any label affix as you'd use in C with macro segments.
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More precisely, std::cout is an object variable of type std::ostream. An example of a related function is std::cout.flush().
As for the using namespace std directive, the real mistake there is to put it into a header file at global scope. That should be avoided since it forces it on the user of the header.
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