I'm having a really werid issue with overloading the insertion operator (<<).
Here's my code snippet:
class instream
{
void operator<< (instream&, char[]);
};
Visual Studio keeps telling me I have "too many arguments for binary operator <<". I don't see the problem here. Is there something obvious I'm missing?
Jump to PostSince this is a member of the class (not a static method), you can leave off the first argument and in the body of the method do this:
void instream::operator<<(char[] data) { this->someOutputFunction(data); }Just an aside, if this is an input stream, why are you …
Alright. So, operators of this type HAVE to be friend functons. Makes sense. I think...
Since this is a member of the class (not a static method), you can leave off the first argument and in the body of the method do this:
void instream::operator<<(char[] data)
{
this->someOutputFunction(data);
}
Just an aside, if this is an input stream, why are you writing an output operator?
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