Re: Question about namespace

From:
billo@radix.net (Bill Oliver)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:08:05 -0600
Message-ID:
<Fc2dnT4r_qfow-PUnZ2dnUVZ_o-WnZ2d@posted.radix>
In article <gllev0$ghk$1@online.de>,
Thomas Beckmann <ka6552-360@online.de> wrote:

Analysis:
1. tmpval is a mycomplex.
2. mycomplex must be implicitly constuctible from the 0 literal.
3. it could use the first ctor: mycomplex(double).

I assume you declared greater-or-equal like this, just as the error message
says:

class mycomplex
{
   bool operator>=(mycomplex& that);
};

You are not const-correct. Try this instead and the temporary mycomplex(0)
can bind to the now-const reference:


Thanks. In my reading on const issues, I was under the impression that it
was nice but not necessary. I guess I was wrong.

class mycomplex
{
   bool operator>=(const mycomplex& that) const;
};

Notice also, the member function approach above is somewhat incorrect as the
implicit this and that arguments in (this >= that) are subject to differing
conversion rules. Better is:

class mycomplex
{
   friend bool operator>=(const mycomplex& left, const mycomplex& right);
}


Got it. Thanks.

And thanks to everybody who replied. This was very informative. Thanks
for the education!

billo

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