Besides, operator overloading is just syntactic sugar for function calls. Remember the purpose of operator overloading: to reduce the cost and defect rate in code that uses your class. Caveat: the list is not exhaustive. Caveat: the list contains guidelines, not hard and fast rules.
That means almost all of the entries have exceptions, and most of those exceptions are not explicitly stated. I know. When you have multiple subscripts, the cleanest way to do it is with operator rather than with operator[]. The reason is that operator[] always takes exactly one parameter, but operator can take any number of parameters in the case of a rectangular matrix, two parameters are needed.
Then you can access an element of Matrix m using m i,j rather than m[i][j] :. See the next FAQ for more detail on the reasons to use m i,j vs. Thus they access elements of the matrix using syntax like m[i][j] rather than syntax like m i,j. The array-of-array solution obviously works, but it is less flexible than the operator approach. Specifically, there are easy performance tuning tricks that can be done with the operator approach that are more difficult in the [][] approach, and therefore the [][] approach is more likely to lead to bad performance, at least in some cases.
In contrast, the operator approach totally hides the physical layout of the matrix, and that can lead to better performance in some cases. Put it this way: the operator approach is never worse than, and sometimes better than, the [][] approach. As an example of when a physical layout makes a significant difference, a recent project happened to access the matrix elements in columns that is, the algorithm accesses all the elements in one column, then the elements in another, etc.
Of course there are many examples of this sort of thing from numerical methods, and sparse matrices are a whole other dimension on this issue. Use the operator approach. The same reasons you encapsulate your data structures, and the same reason you check parameters to make sure they are valid. A few people use [][] despite its limitations , arguing that [][] is better because it is faster or because it uses C-syntax. Plus, oh yea, the C-syntax makes it harder to change the data structure and harder to check parameter values.
The point of the previous two FAQs is that m i,j gives you a clean, simple way to check all the parameters and to hide and therefore, if you want to, change the internal data structure. The world already has way too many exposed data structures and way too many out-of-bounds parameters, and those cost way too much money and cause way too many delays and way too many defects.
Now everybody knows that you are different. For them, maintenance costs are high, defects are real, and requirements change. Believe it or not, every once in a while they need to better sit down change their code.
Admittedly my thongue wath in my theek. But there was a point. The point was that encapsulation and parameter-checking are not crutches for the weak. The m i,j syntax is one of those techniques. Fortunately you are not average, so read on. Beware that this can slow down your program. Next you will enable const overloading by repeating the above steps. You will create the const version of the various methods, and you will create a new nested class, probably called Matrix::ConstRow.
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These operators may be defined as member or non-member functions. An example illustrating overloading for the addition of a 2D mathematical vector type follows. It is good style to only overload these operators to perform their customary arithmetic operation. Because operator has been overloaded as member function, it can access private fields. All of the bitwise operators are binary, except complement, which is unary.
These have been overloaded in the standard library for interaction with streams. When overloading these operators to work with streams the rules below should be followed:. This behavior is generally acceptable for simple classes which only contain variables. However, where a class contains references or pointers to outside resources, the assignment operator should be overloaded as general rule, whenever a destructor and copy constructor are needed so is the assignment operator , otherwise, for example, two strings would share the same buffer and changing one would change the other.
For classes which contain raw pointers, before doing the assignment, the assignment operator should check for self-assignment, which generally will not work as when the old contents of the object are erased, they cannot be copied to refill the object. Self assignment is generally a sign of a coding error, and thus for classes without raw pointers, this check is often omitted, as while the action is wasteful of cpu cycles, it has no other effect on the code.
Another common use of overloading the assignment operator is to declare the overload in the private part of the class and not define it. Thus any code which attempts to do an assignment will fail on two accounts, first by referencing a private member function and second fail to link by not having a valid definition.
This is done for classes where copying is to be prevented, and generally done with the addition of a privately declared copy constructor. All relational operators are binary, and should return either true or false.
Generally, all six operators can be based off a comparison function, or each other, although this is never done automatically e. The logical operators AND are used when evaluating two expressions to obtain a single relational result. The operator corresponds to the boolean logical operation AND,which yields true if operands are true,and false otherwise. The following panel shows the result of operator evaluating the expression. Posted Oct am OriginalGriff. But you are probably referring to the unary operator, not the binary one ;-p P.
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