Beginning C++17: From Novice to Professional

© Ivor Horton and Peter Van Weert 2018

Ivor Horton and Peter Van WeertBeginning C++17https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3366-5_12

12. Operator Overloading

Ivor Horton¹  and Peter Van Weert²

(1)

Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK

(2)

Kessel-Lo, Belgium

 

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to add support for operators such as add and subtract to your classes so that they can be applied to objects. This will make the types that you define behave more like fundamental data types and offer a more natural way to express some of the operations between objects. You’ve already seen how classes can have member functions that operate on the member variables of an object. Operator overloading enables you to write member functions that enable the basic operators ...