Can anybody tell me the diff between keywords and identifiers?
Cin and cout in C++ are keywords or identifiers?
himanjim 0 Junior Poster in Training
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
identifiers and keywords
>>Cin and cout in C++ are keywords or identifiers?
look at the list of keywords in the link I provided, then you can answer this question yourself.
bala24 5 Junior Poster
cin and cout are none of those.
They are objects.
The links are great though.
Narue 5,707 Bad Cop Team Colleague
>cin and cout are none of those.
>They are objects.
cin and cout are identifiers referencing objects.
allthebest 0 Newbie Poster
i think keywords are reserved identifiers
ananyadiwas 0 Newbie Poster
[cout<<] and [cin>>] are keywords since they are built by characters & have special meaning (i.e, these words are reserved for printing and accepting) in the headerfile [iostream]
raptr_dflo 48 Posting Pro
[cout<<] and [cin>>] are keywords since they are built by characters & have special meaning (i.e, these words are reserved for printing and accepting) in the headerfile [iostream]
All keywords and identifiers are "built by characters", so I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to make here.
cout<< is neither an identifier nor a keyword, it is a combination of the identifier cout (referencing an instance of class ostream) and the operator << (a set of functions declared to be friends of class ostream, and defined as ostream & operator<< (ostream & ostr, const Type & val); for various type-values of "Type", and you can also add your own such functions to your own classes as well.
cin, cout, cerr, etc. have "special meaning" only in that they are declared in the iostream header (or possibly the ostream header for cout and cerr, and the istream header for cin) and connected properly to underlying file-handles for your convenience. They are in no way "reserved", and if you do not #include <iostream> in your file, you are free to declare them to be of any other type, and for any other purpose you see fit. Though doing so will likely confuse other programmers. Thus, they are meaningful only by consensus and consistent usage.
raptr_dflo 48 Posting Pro
But regardless, welcome to the forum, ananyadiwas. And I sincerely hope I haven't scared you off completely!
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