pointers are c++ most useful things and is what sets it aside from other languages. Just to name a few uses:

Dynamic arrays
Linked lists
Memory management (eg. passing pointers rather than...

so


#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>


is equivalent to just including iostream? i beg to differ. Ive included iostream before and still needed to include stdio for some functions,...

it might have been confusion of namespaces? surely <stdio.h> should be <cstdio> for namespace std. and vega is right too, that macro needed to be global. only #ifdef / #ifndef / #endif can be in...