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From: mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: overloading operators on pointers to a class
Summary: A little harder than that ...
Message-ID: <184@mole-end.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 11:40:46 GMT
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> I would like to overload an operator that is defined on pointers
> to a class.  Here is what I would like to do.  Is this possible?
 
> struct M { ... };
> typedef struct M* P;
> P a,b,c;
> a = b+c   // the "+" should be something like P::operator+(P,P)


Sorry.  (Gee, I'm beginning to sound like a compiler ...)  What you *can*
do is define a class that can be converted to and from  M*  and upon which
the operations are defined.
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From mole-end				Mark Terribile