Creating and overloading new binary operators.

In C++ can I define any character to be a binary operator? I know I can overload operators such as +, -, *, /, %, &&,..etc, but can I defined the character 'A' (for instance) to be an operator, then overload it? For example, let x and y be integers, I would like to do something like
z = x A y;

"error C2833: 'operator A' is not a recognized operator or type"

No.

Hmm, I suppose you could #define the operator into whatever you want. But I don't really see the use in it.

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Point Point :: operator+ ( Point p )
{
// Overload the operator
.
.
// Define a substitution for the + symbol
#define A +
.
.
// Use the substitution
z = x A y;

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-Prelude

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Originally posted by rmullen3
"error C2833: 'operator A' is not a recognized operator or type"

No.

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Is there no way around this? I got the same error too. I would think this idea might come up often enough there would be some way to do it in C++, or is this idea in general a bad for programming languages? I would really like to create a new character operators as opposed to using a function command to operate on my operands.

I really don't see the point...

But read Prelude's response. You can use #definitions if you really want it.

You cannot create new operators to overload in c++.
You can only overload the already present operators. There are some that you should never overload too and some that you cannot overload.

you cannot overload....

.
.*
::
?:
new
delete
sizeof
typeid
static_cast
dynamic_cast
const_cast
reinterpret_cast

you can overload.....

operator new
operator new[]
operator delete
operator delete[]
+
-
*
/
%
^
&
|
~
!
=
<
>
+=
-=
*=
/=
%=
^=
&=
|=
<<
>>
<<=
>>=
==
!=
<=
>=
&&
||
++ pre and post
-- pre and post
,
->*
->
()
[]

operators you can but should never overload

&&
||
,

Here is essentially what i want to do...
Create a new operator 'd' which acts on two positive integer operands.

It will simulate rolling dice. So if I wanted to roll 2 six-sided dice and put the random result into a new variable I would use a statement
z = 2 d 6;

as opposed to writing a function called roll( int x, int y ) that would return the desired random number.

Is this just a bad idea? Should I just use the function format? I was mostly just interested if this could be done.

I didn't quite understand the format given above using the #define directive, any chance you could clarify it for me a bit further? Would I need to use this code inside a class or could I do this above my main program?

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Create a new operator 'd' which

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what did you not understand about....

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You cannot create new operators to overload in c++.
You can only overload the already present operators.

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