Re: Operator Overloading <<

On 9/30/05, Robert Klemme <bob.news@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > On 9/29/05, matt.hulse@xxxxxxxxx <matt.hulse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Is there a way to overload '<<' in the Array class?
> >>
> >> Or perhaps there's a better approach to my problem. I have a class
> >> that inherits from Array. I want the user to be able to use my class
> >> just like a standard array. However, I want to be able to force some
> >> code to run every time a user of my class appends a new item. I was
> >> able to overload the '+' operator to do this but it doesn't fit with
> >> standard array usage.
> >
> > It's generally not considered a good idea to overload. Consider using
> > Delegate instead.
>
> Pardon me, but this is nonsense: Matt has *inherited* Array. Of course
> you can argue about whether *that* is reasonable, but once you did that
> providing your own implementation of a super class method in a derived
> class is completely standard OO. There's even a keyword to support this
> ("super").
>
> If you wanted to question the practice of inheriting classes like Array
> and String then I'm completely with you. This doesn't make sense more
> often that it does. But I know too little of this particular case to
> further comment on that.
>
> Kind regards
>
> -r :-)
>

It seems like this thread ought to consider the differences between
overloading and overriding. They are most certainly not the same.

Brian.


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