Operator Overloading

Kotlin operators under the hood

Kotlin has a wide range of operators. Under the hood, these existing operators translate into member function calls. Therefore, in Kotlin, a+b is really a.plus(b), -a is the a.unaryMinus() call, and a++ is in fact a.inc().

Overloading Kotlin operators

Kotlin supports overloading existing operators (like +, -, + =, and ...