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From: joseph@cs.albany.edu (Jody Richardson)
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Subject: Re: overloading new() in g++
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Date: 5 Oct 90 05:32:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: andru@proton.lcs.mit.edu's message of 2 Oct 90 21:50:20 GMT

>   second call to new. Seemingly, g++ doesn't support additional arguments
>   to new.	-- Andrew

I'll take a stab at this and say that your supposition is
correct.  According to Lippman in his book _C++ Primer_ from
Addison-Wesley (p. 256 top), 

"The predefined arity of the operator must be preserved.  The
unary logical NOT operator ("!"), for example, cannot be defined
as the binary inequality operator for two String Class objects."
--
Jody Richardson
joseph@cs.albany.edu