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From: clayton@thumper.bellcore.com (R. Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Dewhurst & Stark questions.
Message-ID: <1794@thumper.bellcore.com>
Date: 12 Jan 90 01:52:35 GMT
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, N.J.
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The following code appears in the middle of page 107 in Dewhurst and
Stark's "Programming in C++":

   extern char *home_dir, *path, *file;
   Pathname home = home_dir;
   Pathname file = home + path + file;
   FILE *fp = file->open();

Is this code correct?  Can variables (i.e., file) be overloaded?
Assuming the final reference to file is as a Pathname, shouldn't the
access operator be "." instead of "->"?  Running versions of this code
through g++ 1.36.1 result in the expected compilation errors.

R. Clayton
clayton@thumper.bellcore.com
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