...ostream,¹

We have not yet discussed inheritance, in which one class is derived from another, so don't worry if you don't fully understand this.

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... separate.²

A more obvious way of distinguishing the postfix version from the prefix version would have been for the language to require a keyword postfix in the definition. Instead, adopting the convention with the int parameter avoided having to introduce yet another keyword into the language.

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