In the cout and cin object's case, these return-values are always references to *this (in which case, the reference refers to the same cout / cin -object as you performed the operation on).

May 20, 2010 · C++23 introduces std::print which offers a hybrid approach with positional arguments and some formatting capabilities. cout offers a safer and more convenient way to …

std::cout: The global objects std::cout and std::wcout control output to a stream buffer of implementation-defined type (derived from std::streambuf), associated with the standard C …

Oct 13, 2011 · Forgive me for possibly asking a fairly simple question, but what does the insertion operator actually mean and do in a program? (eg. cout << / cin >>)

Feb 19, 2021 · Character and character string arguments (e.g., of type char or const char*) are handled by the non-member overloads of operator<<. [...] Attempting to output a character …

Jan 26, 2009 · Of course, cout has the nice property that it derives from ostream and gets all the abstraction benefits. C has no concept of stream objects and thus printf and fprintf are 2 …

Mar 11, 2012 · 2 Is that the declaration of cout, and is cout an instance of the ostream class? Yes, that is the declaration of std::cout and yes it's an instance of std::ostream. It is declared extern …

Mar 8, 2012 · The expression "cout<<x" returns cout. But in order for the expression "cout?a:b" to be evaluated, cout must first be cast to some value that's a valid operand to the ?: operator.

Possible Duplicate: What does the &ldquo;c&rdquo; mean in cout, cin, cerr and clog? Can someone please explain to me what cout stands for?

Though it is good practice to std::cout instead of cout so you explicitly invoke std::cout every time. That way if you are using another library that redefines cout, you still have the std::cout …