The name of the game in this book is confusion. The title mentions ANSI-C++ and I have decided to believe the author's claim that he had compiled his examples with Borland C++ Builder. I shall leave open the question of why he was using

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Here are some additional confusing examples

• Target readers. The back cover claims 'Assumes no previous knowledge of programming.' while the preface states 'This book is aimed at programmers who wish ...'
• Teaching style and coding. The first chapter that introduces C++ has the following lines of code (p. 40)

  std::cin>>std::resetiosflags( std::ios::skipws );  while(std::cin>>ch, !std::cin.eof()){    std::cout<

1. The smallest problem here is the fact that operator! had not even been introduced.

2. std::cin

   is used all over the book. Nowhere could I find the directive using

   namespace std;

   not even in the chapter dealing with namespaces.
3. The usage of

   eof()

   is not a bug here, only because

   ch

   is of type

   char

   . I easily found a similar piece of code which was buggy (p. 402)

   int num;  while(cin>>num, !cin.eof()) {      // whatever  }

1. This causes an infinite loop if the input is not an integer.
2. Why not

   std::cin

   ? Because here,

   cin

   is a local variable!
3. The type of

   cin

   is

   istrstream

   , a type designated by the standard as depreciated.

More examples of errors can be found on my pagehttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/yechiel/CS/BadBooksC+C++.html#OOSCPPsmith