In article <2b4i0h$6is@wuecl.wustl.edu> abed@saturn.wustl.edu writes:
|I have overloaded the logical operators < > <= || && etc
|for one of my classes. I have been into the habit of declaring
|everything that is nonnegative as (size_t). But the actual
|logical operators in C++ returns int. So what should I do...

Probably a bad habit.  The intent of size_t is to specify the
'native' size of unsigned thing used to specify the size of objects
on a particular system.  On most 32-bit systems this will be 32-bits,
16-bits on 16-bit system -- but not always.  Whereas logical operators
do by definition return int.  Suggest you use each as intended in
the language.

I hope I wont get flamed for this question....

I have overloaded the logical operators < > <= || && etc
for one of my classes. I have been into the habit of declaring
everything that is nonnegative as (size_t). But the actual
logical operators in C++ returns int. So what should I do...
I cannot decide....does it really matter. Note that the result
of mu logical operator is an array of zeros and ones only.

So for example I say:

array<float> A(5, 5), B(5, 5);
:
:
array<size_t> C = A < B;

then C[i][j] will be the result of (A[i][j] < B[i][j]).


So what do you think,

Thanks,
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