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Operator Overloading

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Operator overloading allows operators to be redefined and used where one or both of the operands are of a user-defined class. When it’s done correctly, this can simplify the code and make user-defined types as easy to use as the primitive types.

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Olsson, M. (2018). Operator Overloading. In: C++17 Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3600-0_20

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