Re: Overloading reference operator
On May 11, 12:56 pm, samjam86 <samkitj...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I overloaded reference operator in a templatized class like below:
template<class T>
template< class T = int >
MyClass
{
public:
MyClass() : m_data(10) { }
operator T&() { return m_data; }
private:
T m_data;};
Now I wrote a code to utilize reference operator as below:
int main()
{
MyClass instance;
instance++; // this works fine
++instance; // this too works fine
instance = 105; // this gives compile error. Why ?
that statement is an assignment.
i don't see any assignment operator that takes a T and neither can the
compiler
return 0;
}
The pre and post increment operators work fine, but a simple
assignment operator is giving compilation error.
Is there a valid reason for this or is this undefined behavior ?
What do you mean by simple assignment?
If you were to use the silently provided assignment operator - it
would have a signature as follows:
T& operator=(const T& rhv);
Thank you.
Regards,
Samkit
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