Expressions And C++

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C++ allows the overloading of certain standard C operators, as explained in Overloading Operator Functions. An overloaded operator is defined to behave in a special way when applied to expressions of class type. For instance, the equality operator == might be defined in class complex to test the equality of two complex numbers without changing its normal usage with non-class data types.

An overloaded operator is implemented as a function; this function determines the operand type, lvalue, and evaluation order to be applied when the overloaded operator is used. However, overloading cannot change the precedence of an operator. Similarly, C++ allows user-defined conversions between class objects and fundamental types. Keep in mind, then, that some of the C language rules for operators and conversions might not apply to expressions in C++.