Cant overload operator. ?

I am not sure what your trying to say. You can't overload the ?: operator if that is maybe what you mean.

What do you mean not allow access class methods directly?

Post an example what you want to do.

Overloading the . operator would be equivalent to "#define public private" so it's not allowed in C++. You can overload the -> operator though.

Here is the list for allowed operators :)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ha4ct2b0.aspx


Maybe that will help you :)

You can't overload '.' (because you'd lose access to the normal way of selecting data or member functions; and imagine the weird things that would necessarily happen if you tried to use "foo.operator.(bar)" explicitly), '?:' ("the ternary operator", because it's the only ternary operator and Stroustrup didn't see a point in adding special support for that - what would you do with it anyway?) or '::' (scope resolution, which is special in other ways too, operator-wise). Everything else is fair game (unfortunately). :)