On 14 Jun 2003 16:27:12 -0400, Francis Glassborow
<francis.glassborow@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> 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));

Let's see your template.  My guess:

template <class T>
T read (istream& is) {
   T item; // uninitialized or default constructed
   is >> item;
   return item;
   }

I'm guessing that you are just hiding the uninitialized fundamental or
default constructing a udt.

John

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