March 3, 1998

When overloading an operator to support a user-defined type (object), it is best to adhere to the basic semantics of that built-in operator. For instance, the built-in operator ==, which

Standard C++ supports a built-in Boolean type: Bool. Variables of this type are can be assigned either a true or false values exclusively ( true and false are now reserved

Both standard C and Standard C++ support struct assignment using = . In fact, C++ programmers are often surprised to discover that assignment operator applies also to plain structs, and