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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition
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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

by Stephen Prata
November 2001
Beginner content levelBeginner
1128 pages
29h 12m
English
Sams
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Time on Our Hands

If you worked on the Priggs account 2 hours 35 minutes in the morning and 2 hours 40 minutes in the afternoon, how long did you work altogether on the account? Here's an example where the concept of addition makes sense, but the units that you are adding (a mixture of hours and minutes) doesn't match a built-in type. Chapter 7, “Functions—C++'s Programming Modules,” handled a similar case by defining a travel_time structure and a sum() function for adding such structures. Now we can generalize that to a Time class using a method to handle addition. Let's begin with an ordinary method, called Sum(), then see how to convert it to an overloaded operator. Listing 11.1 shows the class declaration.

Listing 11.1. mytime0.h
 // mytime0.h ...
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