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why friend function cannot be used to overload the assignment operator?

  
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September 15, 2008 12:59:13   #1  
rajani_vaddepalli15 Member Since: June 2008   Contribution: 19    

RE: why friend function cannot be used to overload the assignment operator?
Answer is simple...
A friend function is a non-member function of the class to which it has been defined as friend.Therefore it just uses the functionality( or the functions and data ) of the class so. it wont consists the inplementation for that class.(any)

 
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