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POWhy is g++ saying 'no match for ‘operator=’ when there clearly is, and Visual Studio can see that there is?
 

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    <p>I'm writing an interface library that allows access to variables within tables (up to a theoretically infinite depth) in an object of type <code>regula::State</code>. I'm accomplishing this by overloading <code>operator[]</code> within a class, which then returns another of that same class, and calls <code>operator[]</code> again as needed. For example:</p> <pre><code>regula::State t; t["math"]["pi"] = 3.14159; </code></pre> <p>The above is supposed to place the value <code>3.14159</code> within variable <code>pi</code> in table <code>math</code>. Basically, it does this by have <code>t</code> return a proxy object representing <code>math</code>, which returns another proxy object representing <code>pi</code>, to which we actually save the variable. The internals of this aren't really relevant to the question, but here is the function header.</p> <pre><code>LObject LObject::operator[] (const std::string name); </code></pre> <p>Basically, in the example above, the program should call <code>t</code>'s <code>operator[]</code> with the string <code>"math"</code> and return another object, and then call that object's <code>operator[]</code> with the string <code>"pi"</code>, which returns the final object, and then assigns the value to that one using <code>operator=</code>.</p> <pre><code>template &lt;typename T&gt; T LObject::operator= (const T&amp; value); </code></pre> <p>The <code>T</code> returned is just a copy of the <code>value</code> passed.</p> <p>Now, my code produces NO errors in Visual C++ 2008 and works perfectly. But when I try to compile it on Linux with <code>g++</code>, I get the following error:</p> <pre><code>../../test/regula-test.cpp:100: error: no match for ‘operator=’ in ‘L.regula::State::operator[](std::basic_string&lt;char, std::char_traits&lt;char&gt;, std::allocator&lt;char&gt; &gt;(((const char*)"Numbers"), ((const std::allocator&lt;char&gt;&amp;)((const std::allocator&lt;char&gt;*)(&amp; std::allocator&lt;char&gt;()))))) = Numbers’ ../../include/regula.hpp:855: note: candidates are: regula::LObject&amp; regula::LObject::operator=(const regula::LObject&amp;) </code></pre> <p>For some reason, <code>g++</code> seems to be trying to call <code>operator=</code> on <code>operator[]</code>, rather than on the returned object like it is supposed to be.</p> <p>I can actually fix this error by replacing the return type on <code>operator=</code> with <code>void</code>:</p> <pre><code>template &lt;typename T&gt; /*T*/ void LObject::operator= (const T&amp; value); </code></pre> <p>But this is not preferable, and besides, I have similar errors in several other locations with a similarly overloaded <code>operator==</code>:</p> <pre><code>../../test/regula-test.cpp:153: error: no match for ‘operator==’ in ‘pi == L.regula::State::operator[](std::basic_string&lt;char, std::char_traits&lt;char&gt;, std::allocator&lt;char&gt; &gt;(((const char*)"pi"), ((const std::allocator&lt;char&gt;&amp;)((const std::allocator&lt;char&gt;*)(&amp; std::allocator&lt;char&gt;())))))’ </code></pre> <p>I don't understand why this error is occurring in g++, or why it is not occurring in Visual C++. Can anyone shed any light on this or recommend any solutions?</p>
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    1. COPost real code. Your samples are broken. `regula::State t["math"]["pi"] = 3.14159;` cannot be a valid C++ statement. The "fixed" declaration of your `operator =` is also broken, because now there's no `T` there
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    2. CO@AndreyT: I apologize, that line was truncated when it shouldn't have been. I've fixed the sample in question.
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    3. COCan you boil it down to a small snippet that demonstrates the error?
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