Re: Beginner's use of system("pause");
Originally Posted by
monarch_dodra
[...] (and may have some un-intended side-effects on your input stream).
Which side effects should that be besides flushing the stream and resetting the error control state? IMO these effects would be rather intended when doing a pause, and definitely would do no harm if only called at the end of main(), what originally was the only place for calling it I had in mind, but if it's there, people of course may call it any time they want... 
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