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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Arguments to Overloaded Operators
Keywords: overloading
Message-ID: <9485@alice.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 89 13:51:57 GMT
References: <11032@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1100@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> <5043@wiley.UUCP>
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In article <5043@wiley.UUCP>, simpson@trwarcadia.uucp (Scott Simpson) writes:

> In article <884@tukki.jyu.fi> markku@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative) writes:

> >If you look at subsection 8.2.1 (page 227) of Stroustrup,
> >you can see (among others) the output operator and function
> >	ostream& operator<<(int) { ... }
> >	ostream& put(char&);
> >Guess why there isn't
> >	ostream& operator<<(char);
> >instead of the put function!

> > But in the GNU C++ library there is.

There is in C++ 2.0 as well.

	cout << 'a';

finally prints `a' instead of `97'.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com