Don't know if I'm losing my mind...

but I've never run into this before. Why would this code see the while loop before the cout statement. Compile it, use escape to exit the loop and then the cout statement will appear even though it comes before the while loop in the code. Using the standard namespace fixes the problem. Why?

Code:

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#include <conio.h>
#include <iostream.h>


int main()
{
        bool done = false;
        cout << "What's going on here?!\n";
        while(!done)
        {
          if(getch() == 27)
                  done = true;
        }
return 1;
}

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Maybe your compiler looks at the bool declaration as some sort of function?

Thats just wierd...

:confused:

It's not the bool, it's the while statement. I don't remember encountering this weirdness before I installed VS6 service pack 5 yesterday. Did you try compiling it?

interesting... Borland C++ works as expected.

try return 0;?

I wish...

i just dont know...

I cant figure this one out.
A job for Prelude maybe? LOL

Oh is there a purpose to this code?

No purpose, just my sanity.

Sanity..

Something that you lose often when programming. Especially with new compilers. I switched to Borland from Dev C++ and oh boy...

I thought I was goin crazy cause i couldnt get his code to work:

Code:

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#include <iostrem.h>

int main()
{
    cout<<"Hello";

    cin.get();
    return 0;
}

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took me almost 2 hours to figure out my problems :(

Maybe the compiler you use has some bugs :D

The Turbo C 2.0 compiler does some weird things too with certain switch statements.

I'm sure it does... I think this began when I installed the latest service pack. But I'm not certified to make this judgement. If anyone with VS6 and service pack 5 would compile this code I would appreciate it.

What's VS6 and its service pack?

I wouldnt let this little bug drive you insane...

Could you imagine all the time youd lose focusing on this?

Go make a program sheesh... or btter yet go to my posts and help me!

:p

I have VC++ 6.0 SP5. I run into the same problem you explained. Switch this line to fix it.

cout << "What's going on here?!\n";

to this...

cout <<"What's going on here?!" << endl;

DOH!!!

Oh so simple...

Thanks Mr. Wizard. These are definitely bugs of some kind. Weirdness.

Inv... Do you check your pm's???

I... think.. you.. have.. one!

It's not a bug.. the output doesn't appear until it's flushed out. endl flushes the output. Whether or not the output will appear before the while loop is undefined by the standard without the endl (or a flush()).

And this doesn't happen when you use a namespace because...

Edit: Ok not bugs, but a difference between definitions of some kind in iostream.h and std::iostream?

I never have undestood "namespaces".

ive tried

using namespace std;

in borland but it make an error...