Overloading the modulus operator.

[Daleth]

Say I wanted to overload the modulus operator to return the remainder of a division between two floating point numbers. Why isn't a custom double operator%(double, double) allowed even though that function isn't available in the standard anyway?

Edited my wording after realizing how stupid it sounded.

[MiiNiPaa]

you cannot overload operators for built-in types. At least one parameter should be a class type.

[yelnatz]

"Operator overloads must have at least one of their arguments as a user-defined type. So you cannot do this."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7192855/how-to-overload-operator-in-c

[Daleth]

I guess I'm kind of asking why the ANSI standard doesn't allow for this specific overload even though a standard one is not available.

[naraku9333]

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cmath/fmod/
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cmath/modf/

[Daleth]

FML, I never knew about that function.