g++: declaration of a friend from within a namespace

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

El Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 05:47:37PM -0300 Alexandre Oliva ha dit:

> On Jun  2, 2008, Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net> wrote:
> 
> > namespace ns { class MyClass { friend MyClass ::operator+(MyClass,
> > MyClass); private: int attribute; }; }
> 
> This is parsed as MyClass::operator+ (whitespace is not significant),
> so you end up missing the return type. 

ok, that's what i didn't catch
  
> > when removing the default namespace specifier ('::') from the friend
> > declaration the error message changes to:
> 
> Then the friend declaration injects the name in the enclosing
> namespace ns, so that's where you'd have to define it.  A definition
> in the global namespace doesn't match, so it isn't granted access to
> private members.
> 
> > i can't figure out what would be the correct friend declaration with
> > the operator in the default namespace.
> 
> Adding parentheses around the declarator id (::operator+) should work.

with the parentheses it works, thanks a lot for your helpful answer!

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