[Bug c++/84918] Better handling of "std::cout >> 42;"
redi at gcc dot gnu.org
gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Sat Mar 17 12:37:00 GMT 2018
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84918
--- Comment #1 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
This seems pretty low priority though, there's a lot of output, but all of it
tells you the problem:
42.cc:4:18: note: ‘std::ostream {aka std::basic_ostream<char>}’ is not
derived from ‘std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits>’
std::cout >> 42;
^~
I'd much rather see a solution to the more general problem of drowning the user
in information when the overload set is very large. That happens with many
operators, but especially << and >>. A special case to reduce that just for the
trivial typo of using >> when you mean << doesn't help the common case.
See PR 58713 comment 6 and 7
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