Defining fstream inside a 'if' conditional
问题 In an answer there was the following code: if (std::ifstream input("input_file.txt")) ; Which seems convenient, limiting the scope of the 'input' variable to where it's confirmed to be valid, however neither VS2015 nor g++ seems to compile it. Is it some compiler specific thing or does it require some extra flags? In VS2015 the IDE highlights "std::ifstream" and the "input_file.txt" as well as the last parentheses. "std::ifstream" is flagged with "Error: a function type is not allowed here".