C# 4.0 Unleashed

Summary

This chapter wrapped up the discussion of a type’s set of members by looking at operator overloading and user-defined conversions. Care should be taken when deciding on the definition of any of those: It might not be immediately obvious what code means if primitive language operators get a totally different meaning due to excessive overloading. However, there are quite a few cases where overloading operators and providing conversions between types (typically values) is beneficial. Typical samples include mathematical constructs such as a Vector.

Extra care should be taken also when overloading equality operators. More information about this appears in Chapter 14, when you learn about virtual methods, such as System.Object’s Equals