C++ Tutorial/Operator Overloading/overload conversion operator

Conversion operator

<source lang="cpp">#include <iostream>

class MyType
{
public:
    MyType();
    MyType(int val);
    ~MyType(){}
    int getValue()const { return myValue; }
    void setValue(int x) {myValue = x; }
    operator unsigned short();
private:
    int myValue;
};

MyType::MyType():myValue(0) {}

MyType::MyType(int val): myValue(val) {}

MyType::operator unsigned short ()
{
    return ( int (myValue) );
}

int main()
{
    MyType ctr(5);
    int theShort = ctr;
    std::cout << "theShort: " << theShort << std::endl;
    return 0;
}</source>

theShort: 5