Boo has operator overloading. Overloaded operators must be defined as static. For example:
struct myNum:
i as double
def constructor(j as int):
i = j
static def op_Multiply(x as myNum, j as int):
x.i = x.i * j
return x
static def op_Multiply(x as myNum, y as myNum):
x.i = x.i * y.i
return x
static def op_Addition(x as myNum, j as int):
x.i = x.i + j
return x
static def op_Equality(x as myNum, y as double):
return x.i == y
static def op_UnaryNegation(x as myNum):
x.i = -x.i
return x
def ToString():
return i.ToString()
x = myNum(5)
y = -x*x*2 + 1
assert y == -49
These binary operators can be overloaded:
op_Addition
op_Subtraction
op_Multiply
op_Division
op_Modulus
op_Exponentiation
op_Equality
op_LessThan
op_LessThanOrEqual
op_GreaterThan
op_GreaterThanOrEqual
op_Match
op_NotMatch
op_Member
op_NotMember
op_BitwiseOr
op_BitwiseAnd
When you overload a binary arithmetic operator such as op_Addition, the corresponding assignment operator ( += ) is overloaded too.
This unary operator can be overloaded:
op_UnaryNegation