Thread: Creating an INF data type.

I want to create a new data type called an inf_t. It's basically infinity (which for C++ is 1.7e+308). The only reason I want this is because I want to overload the cout << operation to print out INF/inf. Should I do this in a struct?

Code:

struct inf_t {


private:	
	double inf = 1.7e+308;
};


std::ostream& operator << (std::ostream &stream, inf_t inf) {
	
	stream << "INF";


	return stream;
}