C# Unleashed

Overloading Indexers

Indexers are overloaded similar to methods. By providing different numbers and types of parameters, indexers can be very flexible. Listing 9.2 shows an example of indexer overloading.

Listing 9.2. Overloading Indexers

using System; public enum Month { Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec } public enum Category { Food, Home, Jeans, Fun } public class Budget { decimal[,] myBudget = new decimal[4, 12]; public void Initialize(decimal[] initVals) { for (Category c=Category.Food; c <= Category.Fun; c++) { for (Month m=Month.Jan; m <= Month.Dec; m++) { myBudget[(int)c, (int)m] = initVals[(int)m]; } } } public void Initialize(decimal initVal) { for (Category c=Category.Food; c <= Category.Fun; c++) { for (Month ...