Need help with operator overloading.

Question

I couldn’t understand operator overloading so I decided to make a program using operator overloading. When I ran the program a compile error occurred. May someone please help me with this program.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class addfive{
public:
int x =0;
addfive operator+(addfive num)
{
this->x += 5;
};
};
int main(){
addfive idea;
+idea
cout<<idea.x;
}

Answer 1

The way you are using the operator you are overloading indicates to me that you have overloaded the incorrect operator.

To me it seems you want to overload ++ not +

Here is your example but with an overload on ++

https://code.sololearn.com/cZL8cSMx9D08/?ref=app

Answer 2

My bad the problem was on my side. For some reason when I ran my code it just said compiler error and not the problem. I just needed to put some semicolons in a few areas and it was fine and I just chose a random operator to use. Thanks for the help though.