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From: kaiser@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: translator error
Message-ID: <75.279B57DF@ananke.stgt.sub.org>
Date: 21 Jan 91 20:46:52 GMT
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In a message of <Jan 18 20:50>, F. S. Kuhl (fkuhl@maestro.mitre.org ) writes: 
 FSK> Why does the translator (Sun packaging of AT&T 2.0) object to the
 FSK> following?  I define in a base class SBName a virtual operator

 FSK> virtual SBName& operator = (const char *);

 FSK> which I intend to inherit in a derived class, ObjectName. 

ARM, 13.4.3, page 334:

"The assignment function operator=() must be a nonstatic member function; it is 
not inherited (@12.8). Instead, unless the user defined operator= for a class X, 
operator= is defined, by default, as memberwise assignment of the members of 
class X."

                Andreas