From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-10-04T15:06:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Operator Overloading

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Thescholar Thescholar
<thescholar@hotmail.ca> wrote:
> Let's suppose I have a class like this one and then I create two
> objects:
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> class Point
>
>  def initialize
>    x = 5
>    y = 10
>    z = 25
>  end
>
> end
>
> a = Point.new
> b = Point.new
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> How do I do if I want to add a and b together to a new point called c?
> Example:
>
> c = a + b
>
> How exactly should I implement the operator overloading feature? So that
> x = 10, y = 20, z = 50. There are hardly any tutorial for this...
>
> Thank you!

For a full blown example you can look here:
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/rklemme/019-Complete_Numeric_Class.html

Kind regards

robert

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