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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: request for comments
Message-ID: <35@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 91 19:25:37 GMT
References: <21@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <21@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:

>"An operator function must either be a member function or take at least one
>argument of class type or of a type derived from a class type."

This statement seems to have confused some people -- I meant "derived type"
when I said "derived type" -- not derived class.  See page 24 of ARM for
a description of "derived types."  Given a class foo, a foo*, a foo&, a 
foo**, a foo[100] ... are all "derived types."