sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers) (07/12/90)
The public constructors for istrstream (AT&T release 2.0) take char* arguments, not const char* const, as I expected. Is this an oversight, or is it really the case that if I initialize an istrstream with a string, the string may be modified as I read from the istrstream? This seeming discrepancy between char* and const char* const isn't limited to istrstreams -- it occurs elsewhere in the iostream library as well. Scott