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From: dog@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (edward.n.schiebel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: overload probelm?
Message-ID: <1239@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 89 13:08:45 GMT
References: <33951@grapevine.uucp>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <33951@grapevine.uucp>, by parker@grapevine.uucp (Parker Waechter):
> class complex {
>...
>      friend ostream& operator << (ostream& s, complex& comp);
> };
> 
> ostream& complex::operator <<(ostream& s, complex& comp) {...}
> "comp2.C", line 14: error:  operator <<() is not a member of complex
> why not?

Friend functions are not members, just plain old functions which happen
to enjoy access to private date of the class(es) they are friends of.
Your class declaration specifies a function "ostream& operator<<" and not
"ostream& complex::operator<<".

	Ed Schiebel
	AT&T Bell Laboratories