RE: [Mono-list] C# Functionality

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Hello!   Just check for the following features in C# specs or overviews:   1. overloadable operators 2. member access   In short operator overloading is available, however, directly overloadable operators form a subset of all operators used in C# i.e operator = cannot be overloaded directly. Some operators are overloaded indirectly i.e  += is evaluated using overloded + operator.   Member access is more fine grained controlled than in C++, however, there is no equivalent of friend methods. There is "internal" member access modifier which allows for assembly visibility.   This situation has some negative impact on programmer control over structure of program written in C#. But CLI infrastructure supports multiple programming languages (currently more than a dozen languges have compilers targeting CLI at least MSFT version) including C++ and it is up to you to choose language of your choice providing most features you need.   At the end there is ILAsm language, which can be shortly described as intermediate assembler language. ILAsm is a basis for defining CLI functionality. ILAsm level is somewhere between "classical" assembler and higher level languages and since it defines CLI functionality it has the least semantic limitations of any of CLI languages. Fortunately it is straghtforward to learn and can be used for coding features which can not be coded directly in any of the available higher level languages.   ILAsm provides more visibility modifiers: family, familyorassem, familyandassem. family means that member is visible from declaring class and all descendats, familiandassem, familyorassembly provide ligical modification of visibility based on assembly location.   Hope this helps.   Jacek From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rohit K Gupta Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:15 AM To: MONO Subject: [Mono-list] C# Functionality Hi to all,   i was wondering about the fact that as C++ provides for Operator Overloading and Friend Functions ,does C# Provide such functionality? Operator overloading is as its name implies     we can define operator functionalities for user defined classes   and friend functions are those which can be defined outside the class but declared friend to the user defined class so that it can access private memebers of the class.   now  by friend where i am confused  is in C# we can define friend classes, members and  functions but those are part of class and can be accessed in same assembly only by making the instace of the class whereas  the c++ friend function can be called without instace of object but just by passing it in arguments     this blurs my c++ concepts am i thinking right or worng? just help me   Thanks & Regards Rohit