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Microsoft added operator overloading to C# in 2001 and to Visual Basic .NET in 2003. Scala treats all operators as methods and thus allows operator overloading by proxy. In Raku, the definition of all operators is delegated to lexical functions, and so, using function definitions, operators can be overloaded or new operators added.
Assignment operators (+=, *= etc.) are combinations of a binary operator and the assignment operator (=) and will be evaluated using the ordinary operators, which can be overloaded. Cast operators (()) cannot be overloaded, but it is possible to define conversion operators.
All the operators (except typeof) listed exist in C++; the column "Included in C", states whether an operator is also present in C. Note that C does not support operator overloading. When not overloaded, for the operators &&, ||, and , (the comma operator), there is a sequence point after the evaluation of the first operand.
Most programming languages support binary operators and a few unary operators, with a few supporting more operands, such as the ?: operator in C, which is ternary. There are prefix unary operators, such as unary minus -x, and postfix unary operators, such as post-increment x++; and binary operations are infix, such as x + y or x = y.
However, unlike Java, C# supports operator overloading. [90] C# also offers function overloading (a.k.a. ad-hoc-polymorphism). [91] Since version 2.0, C# offers parametric polymorphism, i.e. classes with arbitrary or constrained type parameters, e.g. List<T>, a variable-sized array which only can contain elements of type T.
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]
In many programming languages, string concatenation is a binary infix operator, and in some it is written without an operator. This is implemented in different ways: Overloading the plus sign + Example from C#: "Hello, " + "World" has the value "Hello, World". Dedicated operator, such as . in PHP, & in Visual Basic [1] and || in SQL.
Figure 5: Example of how operator overloading could work. Operator overloading is a possibility for source code written in a language supporting it. Objects for real numbers and elementary mathematical operations must be overloaded to cater for the augmented arithmetic depicted above.