Class notes: CISC181 02/17/06 2:30pm


Lecture Notes

A debugging tip.

If you get the error message:


"readNames.cc", line 35: Error: Taking address of the bound function std::ios::eof() const.

If you get this error, it typically means that you making a function
call but forgot the ().

E.g. 
  WRONG:   while (!infile.eof)

  CORRECT:  while (!infile.eof() )

The fact that eof() ends in parentheses means that it is a function call

The fact that I have infile.eof()

  The infile. part means that eof is a "member function" of the
  class to which infile belongs.


An emacs tip... to find the "end of the file" use  escape >

to jump to the start of the file, use escape <