Re: Question on iostream
shnya <testmhigashi@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know why following code is working.
The code you posted shouldn't even compile. I've corrected the obvious
errors below:
ostream&
operator<<(ostream& os, CPerson &str){
return os << str.getName();
/* getName returns const char* */
}
int
main()
{
CPerson person; //Person is User-Definition Class
// not strange
cout << person;
ofstream ofs("test.txt");
// strange. why do this code work?
ofs << person;
}
I read the book "Programming C++ third edition" & "The C++ Standard
Library - A Tutorial and Reference" again.
And I consult the source code which is g++ 4.0 on Mac OSX.
ofstream is inherited ostream.
but "operator<<" is not member operator, no virtual directive, and
ofstream object "ofs" isn't pointer.
I can't understand this "polymorphic" action.
Maybe type conversion happend?
An ofstream reference is freely convertible to an ostream reference.
Since there is no operator<< that accepts an ofstream (as value or
reference and a CPerson (as value or reference,) the compiler uses the
operator<< that you provided.
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