Thread: Overloading Operators

I want to write a vector class:

class fVECTOR3 {

//overloaded operators should come here//


float X[3];
};

So, I tried to overload +, -, *, =, == ... but I didn't get the wanted results (but at least my program compiled!!!).

Can someone be so nice and overload the '-' operator for this class (As soon as one operator works, I can do all the others, too - I guess).
(If someone could even overload =, that would be even nicer ;-)


Here is a short code example of what the class should be capable of:

fVECTOR3 v1, v2, v3;
v1 = fVECTOR3(1.0f,2.0f,3.0f);
v2 = fVECTOR3(2.0f,3.0f,4.0f);
v3 = v2 - v1;
printf("x = %f\n", v3.x[0]);

Define what you mean by the fVecotr class. A vector is often based on a self-expanding array like this:

class Vector
public
int size
int capacity
float array[]
addCapacityWhenSizeEqualsCapacity()
display()

The [] operator is often overloaded to allow the vector instance to act like the underlying array. That is if Vector vector1; then vector1[i] == vector1.array[i];

You need to define what you mean by adding and substracting a vector/array. Do you mean add all the contents of one vector to another such that if vector1 had size 3 and vector2 had size 11 then vector3 = vector1 + vector2 will have size 14? For subtraction do you mean vector3[i] = vector1[i] - vector2[i] if size of vector1 >= size of vector2?? or what?

BTW without the overloaded [] it would be:

vector3.array[i] = vector1.array[i] - vector2.array[i];

or within the overloaded operator definition it might be this:

vector3.array[i] = this->array[i] - rhs.array[i];

or vector3[i] = *this[i] - rhs[i]; if the [] is overloaded.

Once you have those definitions, then code can probably be developed.