Operator Overloading
Explore how to implement operator overloading in C# to extend arithmetic and comparison operations for your own classes. This lesson guides you through creating overloaded operators for user-defined types such as PreciousMetal, enabling intuitive use of operators like + and > to simplify your code. Understand the syntax and rules for overloading different operator types to enhance your object-oriented programming skills.
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C# provides various operators for performing arithmetics and comparison. Some examples are +, -, >, and <.
It’s intuitive to use such operators with numeric types:
int sum = 4 + 7; // 11
int difference = 18 - 2; // 16
bool areEqual = sum == difference; // false
To use these operators with user-defined types, we can overload needed operators.
Overloading arithmetic operators
In C#, we can overload arithmetic operators ( +, -, /, *, %).
Let’s first define ...