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Frank Birbacher <> writes in comp.lang.c++.moderated:
>const char originalFill = cout.fill();

How can you know that the »char_type« of »cout« is »char«?

(Stefan Ram) writes:
>Frank Birbacher <> writes in comp.lang.c++.moderated:
>>const char originalFill = cout.fill();
>How can you know that the »char_type« of »cout« is »char«?

OK, I know, because of:

typedef basic_ostream<char> ostream;

and

extern ostream cout;