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From: bs@alice.UucP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: stream package definition
Message-ID: <5351@alice.uUCp>
Date: Sat, 26-Apr-86 10:29:30 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 26 10:29:30 1986
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> From: Jim Mayer  <mayer>
> Path: ..!rochester!mayer
> 
> There is a minor problem in the definition of the "stream" package, as
> defined in the book and in the 1.0 release:
> 
>	ostream& operator<<(char *);
> 
> This should really be:
>
>	ostream& operator<<(const char *);

Yes, that is what we are doing here now.
In general, ``const'' was not used systematically enough in release 1.0.