"::" in, f.e., ios::scientific- meaning of it???

[enemy]

Hello!

Please, what is operator"::" meaning (in human language) inexpressions like:

ios::scientific
ios::fixed

In other words, what means the "word" "::"???

MANY THANKS!!!

[MikeyBoy]

:: separates out the elements that qualify a name. In the examples you've given, "ios::scientific" is the full name of the entity called "scientific" in the namespace called "ios".

[ALEXCX2PLUS]

It's called the binary scope resolution operator?

[MikeyBoy]

Is that a question?

[ALEXCX2PLUS]

Sort of, I'm just wondering myself, I'm a beginner too and I read that that is what it's called...

[LB]

The scope resolution operator is someone you would have learned about if you had not been falsely taught to write "using namespace std;"