In article NAA19334@kai.com, Arch Robison <robison@kai.com> writes:
>According to the April 1995 and Jan 1996 working papers, there is
>a difference between constructing an ifstream from a file name,
>and using method ifstream::open.

The iostream chapter of the draft standard has been extensively rewritten
since the April 1995 version. Don't take details too literally.

The description of the ifstream constructor now says after initialization
it calls the open function.

See the FAQ referenced below for more information about upcoming versions
of the draft.
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com




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