Help with operator error.

[josephhoffman28]

I am getting an error for the operator in my constructor.

binary '=' : no operator defined which takes a left-hand operand of type 'type' (or there is no acceptable conversion)

I need help figuring out this error as well my instructor feed back commented on my code:

// if you don't have a variable declared for the std::ostream & that you're supposedly using
// then you're wrong

  class Customer {
    const std::string custName, custAddress;
public:
    // if you don't have a variable declared for the std::ostream & that you're supposedly using
    // then you're wrong
    void custInfo(std::ostream &) const {
        std::cout << "Name" << custName << "\n"
                  "Address" << custAddress << "\n" << std::endl;
    }
    // ditto
    void custWelcome(std::ostream &) const {
        std::cout << "\nHello " << custName << "\nAddress: " << custAddress << std::endl;
    }
    std::string custValue() const { return custName;  }

    Customer(const std::string &inputCustName, const std::string &inputCustAddress) {
        // this literally does nothing
        // review assignment vs. comparison operators
        custName = inputCustName;
        custAddress = inputCustAddress;
    }

[mbozzi]

You can't assign to objects which are const. To initialize const member objects, use a member initializer list:

Customer(const std::string &inputCustName, const std::string &inputCustAddress)
        : custName(inputCustName)
        , custAddress(inputCustAddress) {}

There's no point in accepting a std::ostream& if you're just going to ignore it and stream output to std::cout.

void custInfo(std::ostream & s) const {
        s << "Name" << custName << '\n' << "Address" << custAddress << '\n' << std::endl;
}

[MikeyBoy]

Please don't start multiple threads for the same problem. It wastes people's time.

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/233017/