Re: overloaded ops << and >>

[Thomas Maeder]

jalkadir@gosonic.ca writes:

> I have a class that overloads the inserter and the extractor
> operators, but there is a problem with the way I worte the methods;
> because the compiler does not like it at all.
>
> This is the snip of what the problem looks like:
>
> --- money.hpp
> friend std::ostream& std::operator<<( std::ostream&, const jme::Money&);
> friend std::istream& std::operator>>( std::istream&, jme::Money& );

We mere users are not allowed to extend the namespace std like this.

Better add these operators to namespace jme. Argument-dependent lookup
will find them when they are used.