I'm writing a simple complex number class in c++ and we're supposed to overload the four arithmetic operators to work on complex+-/*complex, complex+-*/double, and double+-*/complex.
This is easy enough, but I wanted to try and make it a little more generic and instead of coding for doubles, extending the functionality to any number.
Is there a facility in c++ for doing this?
Templates perhaps?
Nah, because then you'd have to declare a complex object that will work with only one of the numerical datatypes. The complex number isn't supposed to be generic, the arithmetic is.
I had to make a java equivalent as well, and for it I performed all operations on the abstract Number class.
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