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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:18:59 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Developing a Rational Unit
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Nick J Chackowsky wrote:
> 
> Mighty impressed by this DJGPP stuff, folks! I can't believe it's free;
> I'm letting a LOT of people know about it.
> 
> I teach computer science to high school students, and have been
> gradually developing a rational number unit with them, first
> representing fractions as discrete integers, then as a structure, and
> now, as a class. There certainly seem to be a LOT of ways of handling
> the overloading of operators in a situation like this. I've seen:

You might consider posting to comp.lang.c++; this question is a bit
off-topic for questions not specific to DJGPP.

>    istream& operator >> (...)
> 
> without explaining the & in that context. 

I don't use C++ much, but isn't that a reference operator?

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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com