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

An earlier post suggested this:

public static implicit operator Foo(string normalString) { }

I tried this approach... but to make it work you need this:

public static implicit operator Foo(Foo original) { }

and the compiler won't let you have an implicit conversion function from your exact type, nor from any base type of yourself. That makes sense since it would be a backdoor way of overriding the assignment operator, which C# doesn't want to allow.