How do you pronounce the << operator?
For example it is used in here.
2 Answers
In the context of iostreams, writers often will refer to << and >> as the “put-to” or "stream insertion" and “get-from” or "stream extraction" operators, respectively* .
If you are using << for output in C++ programming then I would just call it "put-to".
(Otherwise, that would also be used as the bitwise left shift in binary operations, but I doubt that is what you meant)
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One cannot use
<<for output in C programming. If you mean C++, say it; this C/C++ thing is a myth that does not exist.– tchrist ♦Commented Aug 3, 2013 at 13:07 -
2actually I say to and from backwards to that: "cout << x" would be "cout from x" and "cin >> y" would be "cin into y". I agree about insertion and extraction though. Commented Aug 3, 2013 at 15:22
Just found following in TC++PL 3rd Edition page 25, for your reference.
The << operator (“put to”) is used as an output operator; cout is the standard output stream. The >> operator (“get from”) is used as an input operator; cin is the standard input stream. The type of the righthand operand of >> determines what input is accepted and is the target of the input operation. The \n character at the end of the output string represents a newline.
<<is pronounced "insertion operator".>>is pronounced "extraction operator".