Marco Costalba wrote:
IOW I see operator=() more naturally used between a variable and a value or another variable of the same type, not to add elements to, say, a vector.
std::vector<int> v; v = 3; v = 10; v = 7;
Strange!
Not so fast: std::string s; s = 'x'; s == 'x'; // ooops can't do Again that "overloads" uses a tuple is an implementation detail. Ok, I don't want to beat this to death. Hmm... ok since we are dealing with an overload set. Perhaps a "set" is a good description of this. So perhaps "add" is not that bad after all (Johan must be smiling :-) ). Or perhaps, the union operator |= might also be a good candidate. I'll leave it up to you guys, your intuitions are fine and cool! :-) Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net