error: expected initializer before '&' token

[andrew browning]

Re: error: expected initializer before '&' token

your right. now can you explain where my logic fell down?????

[Artie Gold]

Re: error: expected initializer before '&' token

andrew browning wrote:[color=blue]
> andrew browning wrote:
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>> perhaps this will simplify. below is the header and then the
>> implementation[/color]
>
> [snip]
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>>
>> friend ostream & operator <<(ostream & outs, const BigInt&
>> big_int1){[/color]
>
>
> ITYM:
>
> std::ostream & operator <<(std::ostre am & outs,
> const BigInt& big_int1) {
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>>
>> outs << big_int1.get_b1 () << " " << big_int1.get_b2 ();
>>
>>
>> return outs;
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> friend istream & operator >>(istream & ins, const BigInt&
>> big_int1){[/color]
>
>
> ITYM:
> std::istream & operator >>(std::istre am & ins,
> const BitInt& big_int1) {
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>>
>> ins >> target.big_int1 >> target.big_int2 ;
>>
>>
>> return ins;
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> }
>>[/color][/color]
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> your right. now can you explain where my logic fell down?????
>[/color]
Please quote the appropriate amount of context. Fixed.

Elsethread, you seemed to think that you *could* use ostream and istream
without the `std::' in front of them -- but didn't know why. The answer
is that you couldn't, and can't (the error message *is* a confusing one).

The fact that `friend' is part of a class declaration, and not part of a
function signature was also pointed out elsethread.

HTH,
--ag

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