Re: template operator== not working

From:

"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Wed, 7 May 2008 20:52:59 -0700

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<udZOD8LsIHA.4848@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>

And, by the way, you want the operator== to be const. Not returning const
bool, which doesn't make sense.

bool operator==(const XYZ_POINT<T> &xyzTest) const;

"3DCoderGuy" <nobody@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uzopyzJsIHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

This is my XYZ_POINT.h file

template<typename T>
class XYZ_POINT
{
private:
   T x;
   T y;
   T z;
public:
   XYZ_POINT(void) {};
   XYZ_POINT(const T allVals) : x(allVals), y(allVals), z(allVals) {};
   bool const operator==(const XYZ_POINT<T> &xyzTest);
}

In my cpp file I have this.
template<typename T>
bool const XYZ_POINT<T>::operator ==(const XYZ_POINT<T> &xyzTest)
{
   return ((x == xyzTest.GetX()) &&(y == xyzTest.GetY()) &&(z ==
xyzTest.GetZ()));
}

In the main file I have this

int _tmain(int arc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
   XYZ_POINT<double> dXYZPnt1(1,0,0);
   XYZ_POINT<double> dXYZPnt2(3,0,0);

   if (dXYZPnt1 == dXYZPnt2)
   {
       bool b = true;
       b = false;
   }
}

Doesn't compile with the following error
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: bool const __thiscall
XYZ_POINT<double>::operator==(class XYZ_POINT<double> const &)"
(??8?$XYZ_POINT@N@@QAE?B_NABV0@@Z) referenced in function _main

If I move the implimentation to the header file it compiles fine.

What am I doing wrong?

The actual implimentation is more complex then I'm demonstrating and I
need to include some header files that I don't want in the declaration.

Thanks

Mark

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