title: Difference between basic_istream<>::tellg() and basic_ostream<>::tellp()
body: <p>I was just wondering why the member functions <code>tellg()</code> defined in <code>basic_istream&lt;&gt;</code> class and <code>tellp()</code> defined in <code>basic_ostream&lt;&gt;</code> class have different names. Is that because <code>basic_fstream&lt;&gt;</code> is derived from <code>basic_istream&lt;&gt;</code> and <code>basic_ostream&lt;&gt;</code> ?</p>