C++ Coding Standards: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices

30. Avoid overloading &&, ||, or , (comma) SummaryDiscussionExamplesExceptionsReferences...

Wisdom means knowing when to refrain: The built-in &&, || , and, (comma) enjoy special treatment from the compiler. If you overload them, they become...

The primary reason not to overload operator&&, operator|| , or operator, (comma) is that you cannot implement the full semantics of the built-in operators in...

Example: Initialization library with overloaded operator, for sequence initialization. One library helpfully tried to make it easier to add multiple values to a container in...

An exception is expression template libraries, which by design capture all operators....

[Dewhurst03] §14 • [Meyers96] §7, §25 • [Murray93] §2.• [Stroustrup00] §6.2.2...