Re: Writing operator functions

From:
David Harmon <source@netcom.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:58:15 GMT
Message-ID:
<46093f57.60103546@news.west.earthlink.net>
On 14 Mar 2007 11:05:35 -0700 in comp.lang.c++, "valerij"
<valerij.rozouvan@gmail.com> wrote,

How to write "operator +" and "operator =" functions in a class with
a defined constructor?


operator+ should usually be

  T operator+(T const & t1, T const & t2)
  {
     T result(t1);
     result += t2;
     return result;
  }

operator= depends on the requirements of your class, but usually
you just use operator= of each of the base classes and members.
(That is the compiler supplied operator= if you do not write one,
but unfortunately you have to write += yourself.)

operator+= is a lot like operator= except using += instead of =.
All the = operators (if you need them) should be members.

//code "tested" on Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0


Failure to upgrade to at least MSVC 7.x may be harmful to your sanity.

class DatArray {
public:
    int rows, columns;
    double **a;

    std::vector<std::vector<double> > a;

DatArray::DatArray(int r, int c) {


DatArray::DatArray(int r, int c)
   : a(r, std::vector<double>(c))
{ }

/*DatArray DatArray::operator + (double d1) {
    int c1, c2;
    for (c1 = 0; c1 < rows; c1++)
        for (c2 = 0; c2 < columns; c2++) a[c1][c2] = a[c1][c2] + d1;
    return *this;
}*/


DatArray & DatArray::operator += (double d1) {
    for (int c1 = 0; c1 < a.size(); c1++)
        for (int c2 = 0; c2 < a[c1].size(); c2++)
           a[c1][c2] += d1;
    return *this;
}

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