Plus and equal operators

**misterowakka** · 01-03-2008

I wrote two operators

Code:

template <class T>
Vector<T>& operator+( const Vector<T>& vec, const T& value )
{
	Vector<T> tempvec(vec.length()); //create temp vector
	for(int counter=0; counter<vec.length(); counter++)
		tempvec.SetSpecificValue(counter, value+vec.GetSpecificValue(counter));
	return tempvec;
}

template <class T>
Vector<T>& Vector<T>::operator=( const T& value )
{
	for(int counter=0; counter<capacity; counter++)
	{
		array[counter] = value;
	}
	return *this;
}

I know that the equal operator is working because

Code:

vec4//already exists
Vector<int> vec6(vec4.length());
vec6.print();
vec6 = vec4;
vec6.print();

Is working!

But the following does not

Code:

vec6 = vec4 + 5;
vec6.print();

Any ideas???
Thanks.

**laserlight** · 01-03-2008

tempvec is a local variable, but you are returning it by reference. You should return it by value instead.

**misterowakka** · 01-03-2008

Originally Posted by laserlight

tempvec is a local variable, but you are returning it by reference. You should return it by value instead.

Still not working...Help? :-(

**laserlight** · 01-03-2008

How does it not work? You could provide the smallest and simplest compilable program that demonstrates the error.

**misterowakka** · 01-03-2008

Originally Posted by laserlight

How does it not work? You could provide the smallest and simplest compilable program that demonstrates the error.

OK...so far so good...still something small is wrong, but when I said it doens't work I was wrong. I did a stupid printing mistake so I couldn't see the change.

Thank you very much! hopefully I'm done with this one :-)

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