Which Operators Can Be Overloaded?
Lots of operators support being overloaded by the developer of classes and structs. Although I could show examples of all of them, I’ll limit myself to illustrating a couple of special ones. We also discuss in this section how certain expressions that use operators are turned into uses of custom operators.
A Mandatory Listing
An exhaustive list of all the operators that can be overloaded is shown here. All but a few should look pretty straightforward. The others are the subject of further discussion in the following sections.
• Unary operators: +, -, ~, !, ++, --, true, false
• Binary operators: +, -, *, /, %, <<, >>, |, ^, <, <=, >, >=, ==, !=
Some operators are implemented in terms of the others. Examples ...
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