Re: FWD: How to reuse a friend operator?

["Piotr Wyderski" <piotr dot wyderski at wp dot pl>]

Nathan Sidwell wrote:

> [3.4.1]/9 gives the lookup rules for friends defined in a class. It says
> that lookup shall proceed as described for lookup in member function
> definitions.  So in operator+(const char, const X&); we look in X first
and
> find X::operator+(int);

And the three mentioned compilers do it as you described above.
However, if we add an explicit qualifier to the operator name, GPP
accepts it with no problem, but Comeau and Visual reject the code
(because of different reasons, by the way...). So which compiler is
right (if any)?

    Best regards
    Piotr Wyderski