Changing associativity

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Published on 2010-03-21T15:36:41Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 15:41 UTC
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Hi...

The associativity of stream insertion operator is rtl, forgetting this fact sometimes cause to runtime or logical errors. for example:

1st-

int F()
{
   static int internal_counter c=0;
   return ++c;
}

in the main function:

//....here is main()
cout<<”1st=”<<F()<<”,2nd=”<<F()<<”,3rd=”<<F();

and the output is:

1st=3,2nd=2,3rd=1

that is different from what we expect at first look.

2nd- suppose that we have an implementation of stack data structure like this:

    //
    //... a Stack<DataType> class …… 
    //

    Stack<int> st(10);
    for(int i=1;i<11;i++)
       st.push(i);

cout<<st.pop()<<endl<<st.pop()<<endl<<st.pop()<<endl<<st.pop()<<endl;

expected output is something like:

10
9
8
7

but we have:

7
8
9
10

There is no internal bug of << implementation but it can be so confusing... and finally[:-)] my question: is there any way to change assocativity of an operator by overloading it?

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