From:	"Chris Hut" <chut AT wesleyan DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: extreeeeme newbie question
Date:	Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:55 -0400
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Jason Nehf <zolaar AT earthlink DOT net> wrote in message
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> Okay, I'm trying to write a simple "Hello, world!" program.  this is the
> code:
>
> #include <iostream.h>
> #include <conio.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>     clrscr();
>     cout << "Hello, world!";
>     getch();
> }
>
> But for some reason, the getch() is called first, THEN the cout, and the
> clrscr() is never called at all!!

I think this has something to do w/ the way output streams are handled in
C++.  "Hello, world!" is sent to the output buffer, but not displayed until
the buffer is "flushed."  The buffer isn't flushed to the screen until
either a newline character ("\n") is read or input is pending.  Adding \n to
the end of your string makes the program work properly, so does adding " <<
flush;" to the end of the cout line; my guess is that C++ doesn't know that
getch() means that input is pending, and just waits til the end of main() is
reached, AFTER the getch() function.  AFAIK isn't getch() a nonstandard C
library function?  using the istream buffer (a cin function) would probably
work better.  I *think* generally you want to try to avoid including
non-standard C libraries, b/c they don't mesh well w/ some C++ functions
(such as in this case).

Sorry if this is confusing, I'm not quite sure I have it all down myself
:-/, esp in terms of what's acceptable to include as far as C libraries go
(I know that cstdlib, cstring, ctime and cctype are quite frequently used,
so I'm wondering where that particular line is drawn...?).  But hope this
helps.

Chris

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