Overloaded Operators!

[ranjitvictor]

My Sybase book says "PowerBuilder does not permit user-defined operator overloading". What does it mean?

 

[bsisko]

I always quiver at the thought of having to explain/define somebody else's lessons. I'm a C++ programmer at heart, and the the term 'overloading' simply means allowing more than one function to an operator. For example, the * symbol is not only used to multiply two values, but also as a pointer to assign an address to an variable (identifier as OOP programmers call them).

 

[firrip]

In C++ you can overload an operator so that operators operate on complex data types as well as simple ones. i.e. you can add two classes and the overloaded oeprator knows what to do cause it's programmed that way.