Re: operator= inherited from template

From:
terminator <farid.mehrabi@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
26 May 2007 09:34:10 -0700
Message-ID:
<1180197250.863866.26500@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On May 26, 1:24 pm, Daniel Kraft <d...@domob.eu> wrote:

understanding of C++, it should be inhertied like a simple function?


operator= is a very special member function in two ways:
1.It can not be defined as a binary static/none-member operator
wheras other operators (say operator+(left,right)) can.
2.It is not inherited.
the general inheritance behavior of this operator resembles the copy-
constructor:
1.if A class 'C1' hides its operator=(C1) then inherited classes and
classes that have a data member of 'C1' type can not automatically
generate an operator= .
2.it is overloadable with other parameters but not inheritable;the
inherited class must define its own operator= -in case the operand to
that of base is not of the self type- which calls the base:

class base{
   public:
   base& operator=(int);//not inherited
   //private://if uncommented derived will not be assignable
   base& operator=(base&);
};

class derived:public base{};

derived d1, d2;

d1=d2;/*as long as base::operator=(base&) is public it is ok,otherwise
error*/

d1=1;//error: base& base::operator=(int) not inheritable.

The program works as expected when I either replace abc=5; with the line


just as expected.

Are operators handled differently from ordinary functions when


not the others.

inheriting or maybe when inheriting from templates?


***No.***

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