Question

Heloo, I’m having trouble with overloading the / operator in a member function within a template class. I get the error ‘error C2805: binary ‘operator /’ has too few parameters’ but I think I’m giving the operator enough parameters. Here is part of my header file code

template <class T>
typename complex<T>::complex operator/(complex<T> &c)  
{  
    complex temp; 
    temp.re = (re*c.getRe() + im*c.getIm())/(pow(c.getRe(),2)+pow(c.getIm(),2));    
    temp.im = (im*c.getRe() - re*c.getIm())/(pow(c.getRe(),2)+pow(c.getIm(),2)); 
    return temp;  
}

My function declaration is given below

T operator/(complex<T> &c); 

My declaration is indside the class template and the declaration outside, but within the same namespace. If you need the whole code please let me know. Thank you.

Answer 1

You are missing the class prefix in the operator definition:

complex<T>::operator /(complex<T> &c)

Also, you declared the operator as returning T – why are you returning complex in the definition?