From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Problem with fstreams...
Date: 3 Sep 1997 05:35:42 GMT
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Erik Max Francis (max AT alcyone DOT com) writes:
> Peter J. Farley III wrote:
> 
>> I'm not that familiar with the class structures, I'm just reporting
>> what I see when browsing the header file.  You should probably check
>> out a book or tutorial that teaches about the class structure in
>> fstreams (sorry, I can't recommend one because I haven't read one yet
>> myself).
> 
> ios is a virtual base class of the iostream family.  This means that all
> iostream classes (istream, ostream, istrstream, streambuf, etc.) have
> exactly one ios parent class.

How do the enum elements BINARY and so forth become members of ios, as in
ios::, and not of some enum? Normally the :: thing only applies to member
functions and instance variables, not to enums. Is the enum actually
inside the class? Can a class contain structs and subclasses actually
inside itself so they are only defined in the scope of the class, for
naming purposes?

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