From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:417ba371.46014415{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news::
> > cout formatting is easy
>
> Yes, but printf allows me to remember a small number of rules that allow
> me to easily do stuff like show a float with 2 fractional digits,

setprecision(2)

> // Book is a class defined elsewhere.
> Book b("The Selfish Gene", "Richard Dawkins",
"Oxford", 29.95);
> cout << b << newl;    // output value of b

Oh, like output forms, ok yes I agree. Should that be newl or endl?

> I would definitely write 4.0 (rather than 4.). I was making the point,
> however, that 4. is valid and is a double, whereas 4 is an int.

Oh, believe me that point has been made to me numerous times now .

Geo.

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