Re: Did Microsoft slightly change C++ language in 2008?

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:12:50 -0400
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<ericmatteson2003november@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2ad52828-c219-4cd7-a695-a4ef3bd117f0@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com

The textbook for the traditional C++ class that I had
in Fall of 2001 at communnity college for
the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
C++ compiler had examples like
cout << endl;
that worked with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
In 2008 the new Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition
C++ no longer supports traditional cout by itself.


cout is supposed to be in namespace std. In VC6, you've probably used
<iostream.h> header, where it wasn't. This header was obsolete and
deprecated even in VC6 (which itself is 10 years old), and removed in
subsequent versions. You should use <iostream> header (without .h),
which is mandated by the C++ standard and portable between compilers and
platforms.

Microsoft might have attempted to change the C++
programming language.
On the Microsoft website they had an example similar to
std::cout << std::endl


Add this line

using namespace std;

after #include <iostream>
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