August 1999
Beginner to intermediate
912 pages
15h 44m
English
Discover reasons for overloading operators
Learn how an operator is like a function call
Find out how to overload operators
See some examples of operator overloading
Operators form the basis of many expressions in C+ statements, working with the built-in C++ data types to aid us in writing code that’s easy to understand, modify, and maintain. Remember the overloaded Multiply() functions back in Chapter 8? Those functions were written to demonstrate how function overloading works, but they aren’t really very useful for real-world code. Imagine if you actually had to use functions like this to perform multiplication:
// z = x * y // int x = 5, y = 10; int z = Multiply(x, y); ...