Operator Overoverloading

Studying part of a large complex middleware for a management web application, and wondering why this:
InitechString str1, str2;
...
if(!(str1 != str2))
{
    ...
}

occurred almost as often as this:
InitechString str1, str2;
...
if(str1 == str2)
{
    ...
}

I dug a little deeper and found...


// CASE-SENSITIVE COMPARISON
//
int InitechString::operator==(const InitechString& r) const
{
    return !strcmp(m_ptr, r.m_ptr);
}
// CASE-NONSESTIVE COMPARISON
//
int InitechString::operator!=(const InitechString& r) const
{
    return !!strcmp(m_ptr, r.m_ptr);
}

>>30

C++ is emerging. All kind of cool stuff is coming from there. Boost, ZeroMQ, OpenCV and of cource the STL. It is pretty organized and there are more interesting implementations of the compiler besides the gcc suite.