Re: initial value of reference to non-const must be an lvalue

From:
asm23 <asmwarrior@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:23:13 +0800
Message-ID:
<47882491.30006@gmail.com>
Ron Natalie wrote:

asm23 wrote:

Hi,I need some help to clarify the warning "initial value of reference
to non-const must be an lvalue".

I'm searching in this groups to find someone has the same situation
like me. I found in the Post:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/browse_thread/thread/e81cd9d9c2200d74/48c0774eeb3bd998?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=initial+value+of+reference+to+non-const#48c0774eeb3bd998

//*********************************************************************
// CODE
//*********************************************************************
#include <iostream.h>

class ostream; //Need for Overloading <<


Most likely spurious

class complex {


Since you're using some nonstandard compiler (as a result of iostream.h)
I'd be real careful about using type names that are defined in the
standard headers casually. Your compiler obviously doesn't have a
proper clue about namespaces.


Thanks for your reply. And Thanks for pointing out some mistakes in my code.
Now, I have change the whole code to standard type, which I use
namespaces. ALL works very well And NO "initial value ....." warnings
any more.

//------------------------CODE----------------------------------
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class complex {
    double re, im; //Private members of class
public:
    complex() { re=0.0; im=0.0; } //Empty Constructor
    complex(double r, double i=0.0) //Constructor from 2 doubles
    { re=r; im=i; }
    friend ostream& operator<<(ostream&, complex&);
    friend inline complex operator+(complex, complex);
};

inline complex operator+(complex a1, complex a2) //Add 2 complex numbers
{
    return complex(a1.re+a2.re, a1.im+a2.im);
}

ostream& operator<<(ostream& os, complex & cnum) //Output a complex
number
{
    os << "(" << cnum.re << "," << cnum.im << ") "; return os;
}

int main(void)
{
    complex a(1,2), b(3,4); //Define complex numbers

    complex c=a+b;
    cout << c << endl; //Print sum

    int a1=2;
    int b1=3;
    cout<<a1+b1 <<endl;

    return 0;
}
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