stuck on project... and running out of time

[mattwaab]

hey, i am working on this project, and have made it to the end of the hard coding part. Now i need to work out the bugs / get the thing to compile. I am having some trouble though as i am getting error messages that i dont understand.

here is the code that i am having issues with:

//in matrix.h
template <class T>
ostream& operator<<(ostream& out, Matrix<T>& m)
{
	m.output(out);
	return out;
}

//problem occurs when this is run:
out << "-m6 = " << -m6 << endl;

and here is the error that i am getting:

MatrixTest.cpp - In function `int main()': 
166 - MatrixTest.cpp - no match for 'operator<<' in 'std::operator<< [with _Traits = std::char_traits<char>](((std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&)(&std::cout)), ((const char*)"-m6 = ")) << Matrix<T>::operator-() const [with T = int]()'

those are the big ones that are giving me issues. thanks for your help!!

mattwaab;

p.s. in the zip folder, the project is in the folder called "project"

[Salem]

How much code do you write before pressing compile?

10 lines?
100?
1000?
Never write so much code that you can't deal with the compiler spitting it all out as a pile of crap. It's much better that you find this out early (like 2 minutes after you wrote it).

//problem occurs when this is run:
out << "-m6 = " << -m6 << endl;
The problem with this line is that it isn't inside a function.

<fx>waits for the inevitable - oh, I edited it for brevity, and completely changed the problem in doing so</fx>

[StuXYZ]

The problem with that line is not that it is in not in function but this:

You have defined

template <class T>
ostream& operator<<(ostream& out, Matrix<T>& m)
{
  m.output(out);
  return out;
}

BUT you need to use it in a context that requires const Matrix& since you are returning Matrix<T> from operator-() . You can fix the problem by adding const to the Matrix<T>& part.

p.s. I wish I hadn't downloaded the file and looked...

Please consider that 1e-16 != 0 . Now think hard, how is that going to effect your code.

There are other things but .... fix the base first.