Re: Operator Overloading

Bruce,

I'm afraid you can't do something like this. You would instead need to
define a function, like "a_plus_b", that would do the appropriate thing
depending on the type of "a" and "b", or the value of the "special"
attribute you mentioned.

--Mary

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Lunde, Bruce N CIV NAVOCEANO, NP1 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does NCL allow "overloading" of operations such as "+", so that it can
> be redefined for special data objects other than the normal arrays or
> strings ? This could be useful if one defined a_at_type="special", so
> that "a + b" is different depending if their "type" attributes are
> "special".
>
> Thanks, Bruce
>
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