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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: overload probelm?
Message-ID: <9676@alice.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 04:44:12 GMT
References: <33951@grapevine.uucp>
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In article <33951@grapevine.uucp>, parker@grapevine.uucp (Parker Waechter) writes:
> The error it generates is:
> "comp2.C", line 14: error:  operator <<() is not a member of complex
> 
> why not?

Because friends aren't members.  If you say

	class Foo {
		friend void bar();
	};

then when you define bar(), you merely say

	void bar() { /* stuff */ }

and not

	void Foo::bar() { /* stuff */ }
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