A fine question, but a little too broad (IMO). That's called the scope-resolution operator, and your search term for further learning is scope. All those names (cout, member functions of A) are …

I am a C guy and I'm trying to understand some C++ code. I have the following function declaration:

Nov 24, 2017 · This is called the three-way comparison operator. According to the P0515 paper proposal: There’s a new three-way comparison operator, <=>. The expression a <=> b returns …

Possible Duplicate: What are the differences between pointer variable and reference variable in C++? This is confusing me: class CDummy { public: int isitme (CDummy&amp; param); }; int …

The meaning of #ifdef is that the code inside the block will be included in the compilation only if the mentioned preprocessor macro is defined. Similarly, #if means that the block will be …

95 .cpp is the recommended extension for C++ as far as I know. Some people even recommend using .hpp for C++ headers, just to differentiate from C. Although the compiler doesn't care …

33 Cpp Reference is always helpful!!! Details about explicit specifier can be found here. You may need to look at implicit conversions and copy-initialization too. Quick look The explicit specifier …

Nov 13, 2009 · I want to use the PI constant and trigonometric functions in some C++ program. I get the trigonometric functions with include &lt;math.h&gt;. However, there doesn't seem to be …

Feb 26, 2010 · I have a variable of type std::string. I want to check if it contains a certain std::string. How would I do that? Is there a function that returns true if the string is found, and …

32 For variables, specifies that the type of the variable that is being declared will be automatically deduced from its initializer. For functions, specifies that the return type is a trailing return type …