Virtual operator++ in base class never getting called?

[Josh]

My classes are like this:

class Object
{
public:
virtual operator++();
};

class Asset : public Object
{
};

 

When I use the ++ operator on a pointer to an object of the class Asset, the function never gets called:

Asset* asset = new Asset;
asset++;

 

Why?

[Josh]

Hmmm, apparently you cannot use operator overloading with pointers. I did not know that:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6171630/why-isnt-operator-overloading-for-pointers-allowed-to-work

[Road Kill Kenny]

Makes sense. As a pointer holds a physical address in memory using the ++ operator sounds like it would just increment the position in memory or do nothing... one of the two.

 

The overloaded ++ operator you defined in the class is defined for an object and not a pointer to an object. Sounds right to me

 

(*asset)++ is what you want but I'm sure you know that already by now