Overloading the '->'(member access) operator

[Sayan Mukherjee]

Hi,

In the following code I am overloading the member
access operator '->' . But when I actually make a
member function call using '->', the message inside
the overloaded function does not show. The method
call works alright as if the operator was never
overloaded.

#include <iostream.h>
#include <string>

// ComplexNumber: class definition
class ComplexNumber
{
private:
    long X;
    long Y;
    
public:
    void Assign(long pX, long pY)
    {
        X = pX;
        Y = pY;
    }

    void Show(void)
    {
        cout << X << "+" << Y <<"i" << endl;
    }

    ComplexNumber* operator->(void)
    {
        cout << "Overloaded -> ..." << endl;
        return this;        
    }
};

// main()
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    ComplexNumber *pC1 = new ComplexNumber;

    pC1->Assign(8, 10);
    pC1->Show();

    delete pC1;

    return 0;
}