Re: operator<< and namespace??

From:
Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:44:03 +1300
Message-ID:
<ai5dcjFijb3U1@mid.individual.net>
Rene Ivon Shamberger wrote:

** Please wrap your lines! **

I have the class below that overloads the extractor operator, however, Visual Studio 10 complains giving me an error. I know why the error is created, I think, but I don't know how to solve it.
The problem is that the operator<< method is inside a namespace (ABC), I think that that is the problem.
How can I solve this issue? or, am I looking at the wrong thing here?

#include <iostream>
namespace ABC{
class SomeClass{
    std::string str;
public:
    SomeClass() { str = "Text";}
    virtual ~SomeClass();
    std::string& getData(){return str;}
    friend std::ostream& operator<<( std::ostream& os,
                                      ABC::SomeClass obj );
}; // class
} //namespace

std::ostream& operator<<( std::ostream& os, ABC::SomeClass obj ) {
     return os << obj.getData() << std::endl;
}

1>main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "class std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > & __cdecl
*** HERE IS THE PROBLEM ***
ABC::operator<<(class std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &,
class ABC::SomeClass)" (??6jme@@YAAAV?$basic_ostream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@AAV12@VAddress@0@@Z)
referenced in function "void __cdecl testAddress(void)" (?testAddress@@YAXXZ


The operator definition has to be in the namespace.

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