Is there a workaround for overloading the assignment operator in C#?

Question

Unlike C++, in C# you can\'t overload the assignment operator.

I\'m doing a custom Number class for arithmetic operations with very large numbers and I want it to h

Answer 1

Instead of making a copy of the data when passing the reference you could make the class immutable. When the class is immutable having multiple references to it isn't a problem since it can't be changed.

Operations that changes the data would of course return new instances.