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why operators (), [], -> and = can be overloaded only by class members.

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why operators (), [], -> and = can not be overloaded by friend function.
Nov 26 '07 #1
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Ganon11
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Sounds like a good question from a book or homework assignment. You can either (1) think about these operators, and try to understand why they cannot be friend functions, or (2) try a search engine such as Google.
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