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From: todd@Quotron.COM (Todd Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: possible to overload << and pass an object ptr?
Keywords: overload
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Date: 23 Mar 91 20:10:03 GMT
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Consider the following struct:

struct S {
	void operator<<(char p1) { cout << p1; }
};

S *o2 = new S;
o2 << 'a'; // error <--- How can I resolve this?
*o2 << 'a'; // no problem, but ugly

S o1;
o1 << 'a'; // no problem

thanks, 

--todd

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