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From: mikem@otc.oz (Mike Mowbray)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Now a bug (?)
Message-ID: <300@otc.oz>
Date: 27 Dec 87 05:41:19 GMT
References: <370@targon.UUCP>
Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia
Lines: 31

In article <370@targon.UUCP>, Gerard van Dorth says:

> 	A colleague typed the exhibited program and found an error on line
> 		cout << text;

Removing the const declaration of text will work, as will changing the
friend function in class string to:

    friend ostream &operator<<(ostream&, string const &);

 > ...  the constructor string( string& ) still
 > takes the reference of the constant object. Neither skipping the
 > constructor nor skipping the cont declaration is the answer, who knows
 > the answer.

I don't think the problem has anything to do with the ctor. Rather, the
attempt to pass a const string to a function expecting an ordinary one is
what cfront is complaining about. This is correct. Note that if you adopt
the second solution above you'll need to ensure that the operator<<
function doesn't attempt to modify the string, or more errors will then be
produced.


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