Question

I’m trying to overload the << operator. I’m expecting the output to be InitializingHello WorldOut but it is just outputting Hello World. I can’t figure out what is wrong with my code. Thanks for your help.

  #include <iostream>
  using namespace std;


  ostream &operator << (ostream &out, const char* &s)
  {
    out << "Initializing" << s << "Out";
    return out;
  }

  void main() {

    cout << "Hello World" << endl;
    system("Pause");
  }

Answer 1

There already is an overload for << with the exact same prototype. The compiler cannot decide which to use…