Question

I want to overload the “receiver” operator so I can do this: someClass >> myClass.

…where myClass is the class which I need to overload the operator for.

Hope that makes sense.

Answer 1

As @Mysticial pointed out, you need to overload operator>> to do this.

That overload can not be a member of myClass though. It must be either a member of someClass, or else a global overload.

class someClass { 
// ...
    someClass &operator>>(myClass &);
};

or:

someClass &operator>>(someClass &, myClass &);

If the operator doesn’t/can’t change the state of the someClass object, you might want to pass the first parameter by const reference (in which case you’d also return a const reference).

Of course, returning a someClass isn’t really required, but it’s the normally accepted practice for this kind of operator (it allows chaining the operators for something like a >> b >> c;)