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<p>We can overload the addition of <code>Val</code>s like so:</p>
<divclass="example-wrap"><preclass="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><spanclass="macro">overload!</span>((a: Val) + (b: Val) -> Val { Val { v: a.v + b.v } });</code></pre></div>
<p>The macro call above generates the following code:</p>
<divclass="example-wrap ignore"><ahref="#"class="tooltip"title="This example is not tested">ⓘ</a><preclass="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><spanclass="kw">impl </span>ops::Add<Val><spanclass="kw">for </span>Val {
<p>If we also wanted to overload addition for the borrowed type <code>&Val</code> we could write:</p>
<divclass="example-wrap"><preclass="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><spanclass="macro">overload!</span>((a: <spanclass="kw-2">&</span>Val) + (b: <spanclass="kw-2">&</span>Val) -> Val { Val { v: a.v + b.v } });</code></pre></div>
<p>We might also want to overload addition between the owned and borrowed types:</p>
<divclass="example-wrap"><preclass="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><spanclass="macro">overload!</span>((a: Val) + (b: <spanclass="kw-2">&</span>Val) -> Val { Val { v: a.v + b.v } });
<spanclass="macro">overload!</span>((a: <spanclass="kw-2">&</span>Val) + (b: Val) -> Val { Val { v: a.v + b.v } });</code></pre></div>
<p>Let’s see how we can write these combinations more concisely.</p>
<p>We can include a <code>?</code> in front of a type to indicate that it should stand in for both the owned and borrowed type.</p>
<p>To overload addition for all four combinations between <code>Val</code> and <code>&Val</code> we can therefore simply include a <code>?</code> in front of both types:</p>
<divclass="example-wrap"><preclass="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><spanclass="macro">overload!</span>((a: <spanclass="question-mark">?</span>Val) + (b: <spanclass="question-mark">?</span>Val) -> Val { Val { v: a.v + b.v } });</code></pre></div>
<p>The macro call above generates the following code:</p>
<divclass="example-wrap ignore"><ahref="#"class="tooltip"title="This example is not tested">ⓘ</a><preclass="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><spanclass="kw">impl </span>ops::Add<Val><spanclass="kw">for </span>Val {
<p>The general syntax to overload a binary operator between types <code><a_type></code> and <code><b_type></code> is:</p>
<divclass="example-wrap ignore"><ahref="#"class="tooltip"title="This example is not tested">ⓘ</a><preclass="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><spanclass="macro">overload!</span>((<a_ident>: <a_type>) <op> (<b_ident>: <b_type>) -><out_type> { <spanclass="comment">/*body*/ </span>});</code></pre></div>
<p>Inside the body you can use <code><a_ident></code> and <code><b_ident></code> freely to perform any computation.</p>
<p>The last line of the body needs to be an expression (i.e. no <code>;</code> at the end of the line) of type <code><out_type></code>.</p>
<p>The general syntax to overload an assignment operator between types <code><a_type></code> and <code><b_type></code> is:</p>
<divclass="example-wrap ignore"><ahref="#"class="tooltip"title="This example is not tested">ⓘ</a><preclass="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><spanclass="macro">overload!</span>((<a_ident>: <spanclass="kw-2">&mut </span><a_type>) <op> (<b_ident>: <b_type>) { <spanclass="comment">/*body*/ </span>});</code></pre></div>
<p>Inside the body you can use <code><a_ident></code> and <code><b_ident></code> freely to perform any computation and mutate <code><a_ident></code> as desired.</p>
<p>The general syntax to overload a unary operator for type <code><a_type></code> is:</p>
<divclass="example-wrap ignore"><ahref="#"class="tooltip"title="This example is not tested">ⓘ</a><preclass="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><spanclass="macro">overload!</span>(<op> (<a_ident>: <a_type>) -><out_type> { <spanclass="comment">/*body*/ </span>});</code></pre></div>
<p>Inside the body you can use <code><a_ident></code> freely to perform any computation.</p>
<p>The last line of the body needs to be an expression (i.e. no <code>;</code> at the end of the line) of type <code><out_type></code>.</p>
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