Why aren't assignment operators inherited automatically?

[Giovanni Bajo]

Topi Maenpaa <topiolli@ee.oulu.fi> wrote:

> In short, anything inherited from the base class can be used as
> expected, except the assignment operator. What's the deal? I'm doing
> this on Mandrake 
> 10.1, gcc 3.4.1, if that matters.


This is what the standard says.

Giovanni Bajo