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From: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: overload probelm?
Message-ID: <1989Jul25.193755.5400@oresoft.uu.net>
Date: 25 Jul 89 19:37:55 GMT
References: <33951@grapevine.uucp>
Reply-To: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
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In article <33951@grapevine.uucp> parker@sun.UUCP (Parker Waechter) writes:
:The following piece of code generates an error, and I can't see why
...
:class complex {
...
:     friend ostream& operator << (ostream& s, complex& comp);
:};
:
:ostream& complex::operator <<(ostream& s, complex& comp)
:{
...
:}
:
:The error it generates is:
:"comp2.C", line 14: error:  operator <<() is not a member of complex
:
:why not?
:----------------------
:parker@sun.com.uucp
:These are my questions/opinions/problems - not Sun's


A friend is not a member and so neither requires nor allows the member
access syntax *::*.  See section 8.5.10 of the C++ reference manual
in The C++ Programming Language or sec. 11.4 of subsequent draft
versions of the of the new reference manual.
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