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icon5.gif  overloading operators rules [message #19431] Wed, 03 December 2008 13:31 Go to next message
amando1957 is currently offline  amando1957
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Hi to all.

There are rules for overloading operators in C++ I'm not sure i got them all. I do not ask for a syntax tutor, its meant so "what makes sense".

- keep track of semantics, so that the operator performs it is assumed to do: the op+ should add anything.
- avoid a given overload provided by the lang: "int % int" is here already.

Anyone can tell me some further rules recommended?
Thank you for any reply.

Martin
Re: overloading operators rules [message #19432 is a reply to message #19431] Wed, 03 December 2008 14:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mirek is currently offline  mirek
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amando1957 wrote on Wed, 03 December 2008 07:31

Hi to all.

There are rules for overloading operators in C++ I'm not sure i got them all. I do not ask for a syntax tutor, its meant so "what makes sense".

- keep track of semantics, so that the operator performs it is assumed to do: the op+ should add anything.



Or, at least, keep the new semantics consistent Smile

Mirek
Re: overloading operators rules [message #19438 is a reply to message #19432] Wed, 03 December 2008 23:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
captainc is currently offline  captainc
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This is more of an 'agreement' that is kept for a project team. I think we should make a Topic++ doc page about it so that we keep all U++ code consistent. Some sort of developer guidelines for contributing would be good.
Re: overloading operators rules [message #21284 is a reply to message #19431] Mon, 11 May 2009 16:47 Go to previous message
piotr5 is currently offline  piotr5
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I think a third rule would be to watch out for operator-priority-list. it wouldn't make much sense to define an operator which in combination with other operators needs to be put into brackets all the time. for example in boolean logic "*" is used for and, "+" is used for or, even though the two could be used the other way around, simply because it is more convenient to have a tighter binding between 2 things which live in an and-condition. (for example (a&b)|(c&d) is more natural for us to understand than (a|b)&(c|d)...)

another interesting rule which stl seems to obey is that some operators must have symmetric parameters-types. some algoritms of stl are only defined when both parameters of the operator are of the same type. I don't remember where I had this problem though, but I think it had something to do with the "<" operator...
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