Re: operator overloading

[Jeff Teunissen]

Ingolf Jandt wrote:
>> 
>> Objective-C objects/classes cannot take part of C++ features in ObjC++.
>
> You do can mix the code. The documented limitation just means you can't
> create ObjC child classes of C++ classes, get selectors for C++ methods
> and such things.

Of course you can "mix the code", that's the whole point. You can't mix the
_features_. ObjC objects can't be templates, you can't send them to iostreams,
they have to have "C" linkage, you can't throw an exception from C++ and catch
it in ObjC or vice versa, ObjC objects can't interact with operator
overloading, and so on. An Objective-C++ compiler is a normal C++ compiler
with the syntax and runtime additions from Objective-C. It works because all
of the additional syntax is illegal C++ (just as with C). :)

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