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Overloading Operators

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This Exploration continues the study of writing custom types. An important aspect of making a custom type behave seamlessly with built-in types is ensuring that the custom types support all the expected operators-arithmetic types must support arithmetic operators, readable and writable types must support I/O operators, and so on. Fortunately, C++ lets you overload operators in much the same manner as overloading functions.

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© 2009 Ray Lischner

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(2009). Overloading Operators. In: Exploring C++. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0352-0_28

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