Brian Wood wrote in a message to All:
 BW>     cout << "The value of /a is " << (char)'/a' << endl;
 BW> Borland will send a backslash.  Microsoft, the letter a.
That is strange, there is no backslash involved, I only see forward slashes. 
By the way, I believe a char literal should only be 1 character long (unless 
you're trying to use the escape code for alert, which is '\a').
 BW> or without the cast:
 BW>     cout << "The value of /a is " << '/a' << endl;
 BW> Borland evaluates 24879.  Microsoft 12129...??
'/a' is probably treated as an integer. I think you've got yourself some 
undefined behaviour here, but I'm not a C++ expert.
greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs@village.uunet.be
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