Problem with assignment overloading

[ZED0815]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a bit of an issue here concerning operator overloading - especially the assignment (=) operator.

I'm trying this:

template<typename TYPE>
struct vectorD
{
TYPE X;
TYPE Y;
TYPE Z;

vectorD& operator= (TYPE right){
X = right;
Y = right;
Z = right;
return *this;
}
}

And later

vectorD<int> test = 1;

This attempt gives me the following error:

 error: conversion from ‘int’ to non-scalar type ‘vectorD<int>’ requested

My question is: WHY? Shouldn't it work? What am I doing wrong? And finally...is it possible to do the "vector = scalar" assignment at all?

Best,
ZED

[zb0S216C]

Believe it or not, you're calling a constructor that isn't there. You'll have to do one of the following:

1) Define a constructor:

template < typename TYPE >
struct vectorD
{
    vectorD( TYPE Type );
};

2) Perform the assignment after declaring an instance of vectorD:

vectorD < int > Vector;
Vector = 1;

_Wazzak

[ZED0815]

Thanks!

ZED