Re: Problem with templates and operator overloading

[Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>]

Hi Casey,

I recommend taking out your template operator entirely, and put in a specific:

inline double operator * (double lhs, doubler rhs)
{
  return rhs * lhs;
}

Or alternatively (and especially if your operator struct isn't mathematically oriented), avoid overloading operators entirely and use a method invocation instead.

struct doubler
{
  double calc(double val) { return 2.0 * val; }
};

Or a functor invocation.

struct doubler
{
  double operator () (double val) { return 2.0 * val; }
};

HTH,
--Eljay