Take the fraction class we wrote in the previous quiz listed below and add an overloaded operator operator to it. Operator overloading is a way of providing new implementation of existing operators to work with userdefined data types. By using function overloading on the operator functions, you can define your own versions of the operators that work with different data types including classes that youve written. The operator is not a member of the class, it is a friend so. Overloaded operators are functions with special names the keyword operator followed by the symbol for the operator being defined. Like any other function, an overloaded operator has a. Later in the chapter, youll learn how to flush your own. The overloaded operator must be added as a member function of the left operand. Using function overloading to overload operators is called operator overloading. Thus a programmer can use operators with userdefined types as well. In this article, you will learn to implement operator overloading feature. It cannot be used for builtin types int, float, char etc. An operator can be overloaded by defining a function to it. The write function example showed the use of a date structure.
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