Chapter 13. Operator Overloading and Conversions
One set of members declared on a type is left to be discussed: operator overloads and user-defined conversions. All of those types of members are defined as a special kind of static methods that can be invoked through various built-in language constructs.
Operator overloading comes in handy when defining types that have natural meanings for operations such as addition, logical operators, and whatnot. A good example is a Vector type. User-defined conversions are typically related to objects that represent some kind of value. In such a case, it might make sense to define conversions between different types of values—that is, from an angle in degrees ...
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