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  2. From: Robert.Lendvai@dartmouth.edu (Robert Lendvai)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: [] overload..(newbie in distress)
  5. Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 01:17:54 -1000
  6. Organization: Dartmouth College
  7. Message-ID: <Robert.Lendvai-2101960118330001@129.170.80.94>
  8. References: <DLGppJ.31C@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: atgw-kip-1-94.dartmouth.edu
  10.  
  11. In article <DLGppJ.31C@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
  12. tthiraku@landen.math.uwaterloo.ca (Thanou Thirakul) wrote:
  13.  
  14. > Hi..
  15. > 
  16. > I'm currently stuck on how to overload [] operator such that
  17. > it does two different tasks..
  18. > 
  19. > 
  20. > case 1:
  21. > 
  22. > // A is an instance of a class that contains a linkist.
  23. > 
  24. >    A[5] = val;  // store val into the fifth node of a linklist. 
  25. >    val = A[5] ; // returns the value of the fifth node of a linklist.  
  26. > 
  27. > 
  28. > I was wondering how can C++ differentiate these two senerios? 
  29. > 
  30. > Anything help will greatly appreciated..
  31. > 
  32. > Thank You Kindly
  33. > -- 
  34. > Thanou Thirakul
  35. > tthiraku@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
  36. > http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~tthiraku
  37. >  ___________________________________________________________
  38. > |                                                           |
  39. > | <after submitting a CS assignment>                        |
  40. > |                                                           |
  41. > |  "Well, that was the most well-documented non-working     |
  42. > |   piece of code I have ever written.. " -unknown          |
  43. > |                                                           |
  44. > |___________________________________________________________|
  45.  
  46. The = assignment operator can not be overloaded.
  47.