Ok, so this is a shot in the dark but... Is there any way to overload the argument for multidimensional array access to take in custom arguments?
//normal array access
myArray[1][2];
//I have a class with two ints and do this
myArray[int2Var.x][int2Var.y];
//is there any way to overload the array arguments so I can do this to access a two dimensional array?
myArray[int2Var];
I am currently working in Java but I would also like to know if it is at all possible.
No. Java does not support operator overloading in the way C++ does.
Here's a Java version, in case you're interested:
public class Test {
public static class Index
{
int x;
int y;
}
public static <T> T get(T[][] array, Index i)
{
return array[i.x][i.y];
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Index ix = new Index();
ix.x = 1;
ix.y = 2;
Integer[][] arr = new Integer[3][3];
for (int i=0; i<3; i++)
for (int j=0; j<3; j++)
arr[i][j] = 3*i + j;
System.out.println(get(arr,ix));
}
}
Method get(...) takes an array of any reference type and an index object and returns the selected object. For primitives you'd need one specialized get method per primitive type.
Note also that array syntax in java is not [a,b] but [a][b].
