Re: FWD: How to reuse a friend operator?

[Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>]

Piotr Wyderski wrote:
> 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)?
[11.4]/5 would seem to indicate g++ is correct.  The DRs of friend
lookup do not seem applicable to this case.

nathan

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