Is there any way to quickly visually identify overloaded operators in c++ using Visual Studio?
One of the big gotchas IMO in c++ is not knowing that the operator you are using is overloaded.
Is there something within Visual Studio or some third party tool which will automatically highlight or color-code overloaded operators?
I don't know if there is a tool for this special use case, but for all sorts of anhanced syntax highlithing, refactoring and so on there is Visual Assist X, an add-in for Visual Studio.
AFAIK, Visual Assist really does a lot of enchanced syntax highlighting, but does not highlight overloaded operators. Correct me if I'm wrong.
If you need to do much code exploring, I suggest doing it in Eclipse+CDT. Among many other useful features it also highlights overloaded operators.
OP here. Thanks for the responses so far.
My question was based on the idea of working with non-built-in types. The gotcha that triggered this question came from our in-house smart pointer class. If a function returns a smart pointer, the reference count is increased and the caller is responsible for releasing it.
So if you use an = sign instead of our .Attach() call when calling something which returns a smart pointer (and assuming you want to take ownership of the pointer that's returned), you'll get a memory leak. (The = sign is supposed to be used to reference an object and use it for later.)
The equals sign is normally an innocent-looking thing, so I was looking for a way to highlight them when using this class to indicate that they're not "normal".
Another thought -- is there any way to highlight an operator and do a F12 (or something similar) to quickly jump to the overloaded operator code?