Hi everyone, I agree with Steve, operator overloading is strictly speaking not native to JAVA (I know of it only in C++ and perhaps SmallTalk ). You can however mimic it in JAVA in the following way, lets say you have two Employee objects emp1 and emp2; This is done with the assumption that you have an Employee class with a definition similar to the one below: Disclaimer: I have not run the program below through a compiler to check for syntax and errors in logic: public class Employee { // Properties of the class String employeeID, name; Double salary, allowance; // Constructor for the class public Employee ( String employeeId, String employeeName) { setEmployeeID( employeeId ); setEmployeeName( employeeName ); } // End class Employee // Setter methods public void setEmployeeID( String employeeId ) { this.employeeID = employeeId; } // End method setEmployeeID public void setEmployeeName( String employeeName ) { this.employeeName = employeeName; } // End method setEmployeeID public void setSalary( double basicPay ) { this.salary = basicPay; } // End method setSalary public void setAllowance( double allowance ) { this.allowance = allowance; } // End method setAllowance // Getter methods public double computeGrossSalary ( ) { return this.salary + this.allowance; } // End method computeGrossSalary // Continue with the rest for names, id, salary and allowances // A method for comparing two employees' earnings public boolean equalsTo ( Employee compared ) { return this.computeGrossSalary ( ) == compared.computeGrossSalary ( ); } // Convert the employee object to string public String toString ( ) { return "My name is "+getEmployeeName( )+". My gross salary is "+computeGrossSalary ( ) ; } // End metho toString } //End class Employee @Gatekeeper, I hope that helps and the student was able to get a correct solution on time? Martin. On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Gate Keeper <mohasq@gmail.com> wrote:
Skunks I will ask the student to get the Lecturers answer then we see what he/she had as the answer. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
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