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What is the benefit of operator overloading..?

8th Mar 2017, 12:42 PM
RaVVan
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It is a syntactic suger. Imagine that you created a class like this: // Code #1 class INT{ int x; public: ~INT(){} INT(int y):x(y){} INT(INT const&t):x(t.x){} INT(INT&&t):x(t.x){} INT& operator= (int y){x=y;return*this;} INT& operator= (INT const&t){x=t.x;return*this;} INT& operator= (INT&&t){x=t.x;return*this;} INT& setValue (int y){x=y;return*this;} INT& setValue (INT const&t){x=t.x;return*this;} INT& setValue (INT&&t){x=t.x;return*this;} } a, b, c, d; // Text And, you create four objects named a, b, c and d. Then, you want to set them all to 28, which way would you choose? // Code #2 a=b=c=d=28; // Code #3 a.setValue(b.setValue(c.setValue(d.setValue(28))));
16th Apr 2018, 5:52 PM
刘宇轩,一个来自西安的喜欢取长昵称的大学生。
刘宇轩,一个来自西安的喜欢取长昵称的大学生。 - avatar
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do you know any way to add objects directly like any number? operator overloading will do that work.
8th Mar 2017, 12:57 PM
Raj Kumar Chauhan
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It allows UDTs (User Defined Types) to act like build-in types. So, similar to the way you can do: int x=1, y=2, z; z = x + y; .. for build-in types you can do: class A{..} ; A a, b, c; c = b + a; The way this is achieved is to use operator overloading.
8th Mar 2017, 1:19 PM
Ettienne Gilbert
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