TITLE: koenig searches/lookups (Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++.moderated, 28 Jan 98) STAUB: "Ed Staub" > Sorry to not be of the cognoscenti, but... what the heck > is a Koenig search/lookup? ROSEN: Hyman Rosen Basically, when the parameters of a function call have types which come from other namespaces, those namespaces are searched for matching functions. The full details are in section 3.4.2 of the draft standard. I believer the idea was to handle operators transparently; that is, if you have a couple of variables of type N::string and you apply operator + to them, you will get the operator + from namespace N if it exists.