cout and cin are not functions, so what are they?

Question

Generally in C programming language We consider printf and scanf to be functions. when it comes to cout and cin, in C++ what are they?I mean they cant be functions as they are n

Answer 1

Suppose x is an variable ( let integer type ) .We want to put value in it.What we do ?

We write cin>>x .

But we can also put the int data by writing cin.operator>>(x) . This implies cin is an object and operator >> is a function in which x is passed .