From -5598510640586535313 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,d807f402b53e9296,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!news.alt.net!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail From: "ScottM" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: overriding postfix operator Date: 24 Jul 2005 21:40:02 GMT Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 20 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <1122152522.719764.325240@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Trace: posting.google.com 1122152528 6224 127.0.0.1 (23 Jul 2005 21:02:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:02:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=199.46.198.234; posting-account=_FL1Xg0AAADPI1QCuujJrMgLpVIwNb4q X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:1471 I find people new to C++ tend to avoid overriding the postfix operators (++, etc.) because the syntax is bizarre. I'm wondering if an alternate syntax (I realise there is no good syntax for this) might help: operator ++ //prefix operator ++... //prefix operator ...++ //postfix where ... is the '...' token, which as far as I can tell can't otherwise be here. I find an amusing, gentle irony in that fact that the expression c++ is curiously hard to override in C++. :-) --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]