How to call operator<< on "this" in a descendant of std::stringstream?

Posted by romkyns on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by romkyns
Published on 2010-06-10T09:24:51Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 9:33 UTC
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class mystream : public std::stringstream
{
public:
    void write_something()
    {
        this << "something";
    }
};

This results in the following two compile errors on VC++10:

error C2297: '<<' : illegal, right operand has type 'const char [10]'
error C2296: '<<' : illegal, left operand has type 'mystream *const '

Judging from the second one, this is because what this points at can't be changed, but the << operator does (or at least is declared as if it does). Correct?

Is there some other way I can still use the << and >> operators on this?

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