[fpc-devel] class operator overloads

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Jun 10, 2019, at 2:21 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> There exist only two assignment operators, namely "Implicit" (aka := in mode ObjFPC) and "Explicit" both taking a single argument. Introducing a binary operator does not change that the operator is forbidden for classes. 
> 
> 
> I just tried this right now and I didn’t an error but it was indeed not overloaded and never got called. A bug?
> 
> operator := (left, right: TObject): TObject;
> begin
>   writeln('custom :=');
> end;
> 
> var
>   c: TObject;
> begin
>   c := TObject.Create;
> end.
> 
> Did you try with trunk? Cause I fixed something related to that a few weeks ago. 
> 

Yeah in trunk it says impossible overload for equal types.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph