Operator Overloading

Table of Contents

1. Operators

1.1. Operators are Functions

1.2. Declaring Operators

1.3. Keep it Natural

2. I/O Operators

2.1. Providing the Output Operator

2.2. Using the Output Op

2.3. Fine Points

3. Comparison Operators

3.1. Comparison Operators for Time

3.2. Equality Operators for Compound Data

3.3. Less-than Operators for Compound Data

3.4. Adding Both == and <

4. The Assignment Operator

4.1. Compiler-Generated Assignment Ops

4.2. Example: BidCollection: Guess what happens

4.3. Avoiding this Problem

4.4. Implementing Assignment

5. The Rule of the Big 3

5.1.

5.2.

5.3.

5.4. The Rule of the Big 3

5.5. Providing the Big 3