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 how certain expressions that use operators (such as &&
or ?:
) are turned into uses of multiple 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:
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