From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question: Help with complex class
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 13:11:06 -0700
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SWars Matt wrote:

> I had also defined a ^ operator of a complex
> number and an integer.  The compiler told me that for the +, -, and *
> operator there must be either one or zero arguments, and for / and ^
> there
> must be exactly one.  Why is this? I don't understand why I am limited
> to
> the number of arguments.

This error is given when you are attempting to declare an overloaded
operator that is a member function.

That is:

    class C
    {
        // ...

        operator +(int x);
        friend operator +(C &c, double y);

        // ...
    };

    C c;

    c + 2;   // calls C::operator +(int) -- the member function
    c + 1.; // calls operator +(C &, double) -- the friend function

In other words, I suspect that what you said earlier (namely that you were
declaring them as friend functions) is wrong.

For more help, you'll have to post (the shortest amount of) code that
exhibits the problem.

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