What would it take to add your own operator? I have a feeling the answer is something along the lines of "an act of god" (meaning writing your own language would be faster), but i feel i should just ask anyways. If i wanted to assign the @ character for example, as an operator for add seven to the number like a postincriment operator or something, is there any way to hijack a character and turn it into an operator? Thanks for your (now wasted) time.
You cannot create your own operators unless you write your own programming language.
While you're breakin' down my back n'
I been rackin' out my brain
It don't matter how we make it
'Cause it always ends the same
You can push it for more mileage
But your flaps r' wearin' thin
And I could sleep on it 'til mornin'
But this nightmare never ends
Don't forget to call my lawyers
With ridiculous demands
An you can take the pity so far
But it's more than I can stand
'Cause this couchtrip's gettin' older
Tell me how long has it been
'Cause 5 years is forever
An you haven't grown up yet
-- You Could Be Mine - Guns N' Roses
Why would you want to do this when you can overload the exisiting operator anyway?
If i overload an existing operator for example using the integer post incriment operator to add 7 instead of 1, my code would become incompadible with other code, and probablly break it. To do it properly i would have to write wrapper classes for all the standard datatypes, and instead of using standard datatypes, use the wrappers in all instances, which would really be re-inventing the wheel vs just inventing a new operator to do whatever i wanted. Thats Why.(TM)
