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Operator overloading allows operators to be redefined and used where one or both of the operands are of a user-defined class. When done correctly, this can simplify the code and make user-defined types as easy to use as the primitive types.
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© 2013 Mikael Olsson
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Olsson, M. (2013). Operator Overloading. In: C++ Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6278-7_20
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