While doing a youtube tutorial on operator overloading, I'm having trouble fixing an operator overloading (using friend function) error message. The message received was about, class Complex has no member "operator+" and class "Complex::real" declared at line 7 is inaccessible.
// link to the tutorial i'm struggling with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlCYu_mc-T8
// the error message starts around here://
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class Complex
{
int real, imag;
public:
void read();
void show();
friend Complex operator+ (Complex , Complex); // Friend function declaration
};
void Complex::read()
{
cout << "Enter real value: ";
cin >> real;
cout << "Enter imaginary value: ";
cin >> imag;
}
void Complex::show()
{
cout << real;
if (imag < 0)
cout << "-i";
else
cout << "+i";
cout << abs(imag) << endl;
}
Complex Complex::operator+(Complex c1, Complex c2)
{
Complex temp;
temp.real = c1.real + c2.real;
temp.imag = c1.imag + c2.imag;
return temp;
}
int main()
{
Complex c1, c2, c3;
c1.read();
c2.read();
c3 = c1 + c2; // invokes operator + (Complex, Complex)
cout << "Addition of c1 and c2 = ";
c3.show();
return 0;
}
The friend
is not a member. Hence, change this line:
Complex Complex::operator+(Complex c1, Complex c2)
to :
Complex operator + (Complex c1, Complex c2)