in reply to Re^3: Name conflict between MinGW C++ standard library header and Perl development header
in thread Name conflict between MinGW C++ standard library header and Perl development header

__ostream_type& is the return type of write() function. Nothing important.

In C++, "&" is reference. You can just treat it as a sugar for pointers.

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