Dear advanced c/g++ programers:

I have a simple program from book C++ cookbook, page 291, 8.3, Using
Constructors and Destructors to manage
resources (or RAII), but it can not get compiled in my g++
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// Example 8-3. Using constructors and destructors
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
class Socket {
public:
Socket(const string& hostname) {}
};
class HttpRequest {
public:
HttpRequest (const string& hostname) :
sock_(new Socket(hostname)) {}
void send(string soapMsg) {sock_ << soapMsg; }
~HttpRequest () {delete sock_;}
private:
Socket* sock_;
};
void sendMyData(string soapMsg, string host) {
HttpRequest req(host);
req.send(soapMsg);
// Nothing to do here, because when req goes out of scope
// everything is cleaned up.
}
int main() {
string s = "xml";
sendMyData(s, "www.oreilly.com");
}
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my test compile fail as
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eric@eric-laptop:~/cppcookbook/ch8$ g++ Example8-3.cpp
Example8-3.cpp: In member function ‘void
HttpRequest::send(std::string)’:
Example8-3.cpp:13:39: error: no match for ‘operator<<’ in
‘((HttpRequest*)this)->HttpRequest::sock_ << soapMsg’
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on both g++ 4.3.4 and 4.5.2
you can get its source code from
http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596007614/
to test by yourself

looking and thanks your help a lot in advance, Eric

This code won't compile. Perhaps it wasn't meant to be compiled at all and is simply an illustration.

This:
Requires operator<< for Socket class, which isn't present.

Is the Socket class defined more completely somewhere else in the book? Even if so, sock_ is a pointer so it would either need to be *sock_ << ... or there would need to be operator << (Socket*, string) defined outside of a class. I'm wondering if you need a new book.
Kevin Barry