Thread: Help w/sort and operator overloading

I'm able to sort any three given coordinates with respect to their reference angle by overlaoding the < operator like so:

Code:

// In coordinate class:

bool operator<(const Coord& rhs){ return theta < rhs.theta; };

// And now in main or elsewhere I can say:

coordList.sort();

which is good, except there are special cases where this won't work. One of those cases is if two coordinates have the same reference angle.

My question is really what other operator can I overload to take care of this? Should I overload <=? ==?

Also, I've had problems trying to add if-else statements in overloaded operators, any idea why that is?

Like this:

Code:

operator <(const Coord& rhs){

    if(theta == something){
           // do this
    }

    else{ 
           // do something else
    }
};