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In computer programming, operator overloading, sometimes termed operator ad hoc polymorphism, is a specific case of polymorphism, where different operators have different implementations depending on their arguments. Operator overloading is generally defined by a programming language, a programmer, or both.
Operators that are in the same cell (there may be several rows of operators listed in a cell) are grouped with the same precedence, in the given direction. An operator's precedence is unaffected by overloading. The syntax of expressions in C and C++ is specified by a phrase structure grammar. [7] The table given here has been inferred from the ...
This is an example of overloading or more specifically, operator overloading. Note the ambiguity in the string types used in the last case. Consider "123" + "456" in which the programmer might naturally assume addition rather than concatenation. They may expect "579" instead of "123456". Overloading can therefore provide different meaning, or ...
In languages that support operator overloading by the programmer (such as C++) but have a limited set of operators, operator overloading is often used to define customized uses for operators. In the example IF ORDER_DATE > "12/31/2011" AND ORDER_DATE < "01/01/2013" THEN CONTINUE ELSE STOP , the operators are: > (greater than), AND and < (less ...
Christopher Strachey chose the term ad hoc polymorphism to refer to polymorphic functions that can be applied to arguments of different types, but that behave differently depending on the type of the argument to which they are applied (also known as function overloading or operator overloading). [5]
Assignment operator; Assignment operator (C++) Augmented assignment; B. Bitwise operation; ... Operator associativity; Operator overloading; Operators in C and C++;
The first is taken in C++: "in C++, there is no overloading across scopes." [ 12 ] As a result, to obtain an overload set with functions declared in different scopes, one needs to explicitly import the functions from the outer scope into the inner scope, with the using keyword.
Actually, we are allowed to overload an operator with no restriction, eg. we can overload operator= as a void but such an approach would cause confusion to the application programmer who should cope with various behaviors of assignment operation — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lefteris.moussiades (talk • contribs) 18:20, 11 December ...