18. Operator Functions: Doing It with Class
One of the more interesting things you can do with C++ is to define how operators work with objects of your classes. You can define a Fraction type, for example, and then create a way for the following statements to be meaningful in C++:
Fraction fr1(1, 2), fr2(1, 4);cout << fr1 + fr2 << endl;
Wouldn’t it be nice if this would add 1/2 to 1/4 and then print the characters “3/4”? Well, you can make C++ do just that. And you can make such code even more readable by adding the Fraction(string) constructor shown at the end of Chapter 11. In that case, you can write this:
Fraction a = "1/2", b = "1/6";cout << a + b << endl; // Print "2/3".
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