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From: parker@grapevine.uucp (Parker Waechter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: overload probelm?
Message-ID: <33951@grapevine.uucp>
Date: 24 Jul 89 19:55:15 GMT
Reply-To: parker@sun.UUCP (Parker Waechter)
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Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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The following piece of code generates an error, and I can't see why

#include <stream.h>
class complex {
    double r;
    double i;
  public:
     complex() {r = 0;i = 0;}
     complex(double rv, double iv = 0) {r = rv; i = iv;}
     friend ostream& operator << (ostream& s, complex& comp);
};

ostream& complex::operator <<(ostream& s, complex& comp)
{s << comp.r << " " << comp.i << "i" ;
  return (s);
}

The error it generates is:
"comp2.C", line 14: error:  operator <<() is not a member of complex

why not?
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