Implementing Functionality Using Methods
Explore how to create and use instance and static methods within C# classes to model real-world actions such as marriage and procreation. Understand operator overloading and method reuse to build flexible, object-oriented types that manage relationships and behaviors between instances.
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Think of some methods that would apply to a Person instance that could also become operators like + and *. What would adding two people together represent? What would multiplying two people represent?
The obvious answers are getting married and having babies. We might want two instances of a Person to be able to marry and procreate. We can implement this by writing methods and overriding operators.
Instance methods are actions an object does to itself. Static methods are actions the type does. Using static and instance methods to perform similar actions often makes sense. For example, the string has a Compare static and ...