Assignment operators

[Kenneth Porter]

Is there a way to define a modifying assignment operator (eg. *= or +=) so
that it can be used by a C# client?

I'm trying to puzzle out section 19.7.5.4 of ECMA-372 and can't tell if
this is possible. I think it says that such operators can only be used by
C++ clients, not other .NET languages. Googling for examples hasn't turned
up anything.

http://www.ecma-international.org/pu...s/Ecma-372.htm

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

Is there a way to define a modifying assignment operator (eg. *= or
+=) so that it can be used by a C# client?

I'm trying to puzzle out section 19.7.5.4 of ECMA-372 and can't tell
if this is possible. I think it says that such operators can only be
used by C++ clients, not other .NET languages. Googling for examples
hasn't turned up anything.

http://www.ecma-international.org/pu...s/Ecma-372.htm

I think it is not possible, as C# decomposes the compound assignment into
the binary operator followed by bitwise copy.

[Kenneth Porter]

"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rb*@nospam.nospamwrote in
news:eZ**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:

I think it is not possible, as C# decomposes the compound assignment
into the binary operator followed by bitwise copy.

Ok. My workaround is to define a named method that just wraps the
assignment operator:

// usable by other C++/CLI
Class^ operator+=(Class^ other);

// for other CLR languages
Class^ add(Class^ other) { return *this += *other; }