Why does ostream_iterator not work as expected?

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The problem is that the name lookup does not find your operator<<(ostream& os, const PAIR& r). The code that tries to invoke the operator<< is in somewhere inside the ostream_iterator<> which is itself inside the std namespace. The name lookup looks around for the right function inside ostream_iterator<> and the std namespace; the argument dependent lookup does not help here because both of the parameters are in the std namespace, too.

So, my suggestion is (1) either to wrap your operator into namespace std { }, but that is UB, IIRC. Or (2) create a struct inheriting from std::pair to define a new type in your namespace, and using the ADL to find your operator<<().

UPDATE:

My 3rd suggestion is to use a custom manipulator to print out the pair.

As for my 2nd suggestion, if you can use C++11, inheriting from std::pair should be easy (untested):

struct PAIR : std::pair
{
  using std::pair::pair;
};

If you cannot use C++11, then I suggest using a custom manipulator.

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