Using the += Assignment Operator

[dipique]

According to Microsoft:

//string concatenation
string s = "Hello";
s += " world.";
Console.WriteLine(s);
//Output: "Hello world."

In other words, x += y is the same as x = x + y.

I would like to overload (or declare a new operator?) so that x += y is the same as x = y + x. I just want to reverse the order. So in MS's example, the output would be " world. Hello"

Is this possible?

Dan

[Erendar]

In C#.net you can override and define new operators overloads.

Nice MSDN tutorial there :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.71).aspx

So i would say to redefine it just do it for strings and should be something like that :

public static String operator +(String s1, String s2) 
   {
      return String.Contact(s2,s1)
   }

[dipique]

My preferred solution would be creating a "=+" operator, which would accurately mimic the desired behavior. The second-best would be overloading the += operator. Are either of those possible, and if so how would I go about that?

Dan

[DataMiser]

I would say that if one were to redefine += to behave as suggested in the OP it would cause great confusion for anyone reading or writing the code as well as possibly confusing the compiler and causing many problems along the way.

The opposite suggested in post #3 might not be so bad but would still confuse anyone reading the code.

[dipique]

True. In retrospect I guess this is really just a post to say, "I wish this existed." I'll get over it and back to coding now.