OOP in VB .NET

[Boumxyz2]

.... I just found out you can't overload Operators in VB .NET.. Now I wish I would have gone C# instead...

Stuck doing a stupid Compare function instead of a nice clean

a = b

bah...

and I can't do

a = b = c


a.compare(b).Compare(c) won't work.. cause Compare doesn't return a reference to a like a clean operator would do.

[DSJ]

I believe, but could be wrong, that that'll be included in 2005.

[JSawyer]

I'm comming over from C++, and it is annoying to not have things like operator overload, the post/pre increment, and even true pointers. However, remember those things are more of a convenience. You can always program other ways then with pointers, and when you overload operators, you still have all the underlying code to make it work. Which would be pretty much equal to you having to program around it.

[jhammer]

I believe, but could be wrong, that that'll be included in 2005.

DSJ was right. In Visual Studio 2005, indeed there is proper operator overloading.
I recommend on the book in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/whidbey/introto2005/
which you can download for free. In the second chapter it is all explained.
You will have proper operator overloading for arithmetical operators, and logical operators. Plus you will have operator overloading for CType. And the cool new operators of IsTrue, IsFalse and Not.

[Boumxyz2]

I don't need Pointer.. but Overloading operator is OOP in my opinion and saying VB .NET is OOP but in fact hasn't Operator overload is a lie. I have to work with methods that are not necessarily as Code explicit and clean than the Operators.

IF A = B then is a whole more explicit than A.equal(b) <------ REMINDS ME OF cough cough bad cough cough Java

But anyway.. I'll work around it

Thx guys

Just wanted to point that out