>>23
Independant, you fucking imbecile.
PROTIP: '\n' is platform independant too. It's only guaranteed to flush the streams opened with _IOLBF. It's not actually guaranteed to be a newline.
>>24
Note that cout is tie()'d to cin, so using cin will automagically flush cout.
I don't know C++, but that sounds ridiculous, I doubt you are correct.