In message <WXiGa.11515$KF1.273500@amstwist00>, Terje Sletteb� 
<tslettebo@chello.no.nospam> writes
>int i;
>
>stream >> i;
>
>Intialising "i" beforehand would just be vasteful.
>
Well yes, but any halfway competent programmer has a way to initialise a

variable from a stream, in my case I use my own template that allows me 
to write:

int i(read<int>(stream));

and note that that allows me to initialise const qualified variables 
from an input stream.

The special case is where we want to initialise an array from input 
though I do have a contortion to do that as well but only for user 
defined types written to provide that facility.


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