Overloading operator << - C++

Question

Background

I have a container class which uses vector internally. I have provided a method AddChar(std::string) to this wrap

Answer 1

The operator overloading in this case is not good practice as it makes the code less readable. The standard std::vector doesn't have it either for pushing elements, for good reasons.

If you're worried about the caller code being too long, you could consider this instead of the overloaded operator:

container.AddChar("First").AddChar("Second");

This will be possible if you have AddChar() return *this.

It's funny that you have this toString() function. In that case, an operator<< to output to a stream would be the standard thing to use instead! So if you want to use operators make the toString() function an operator<<.