Why can '=' not be overloaded in C#?

Question

I was wondering, why can\'t I overload \'=\' in C#? Can I get a better explanation?

Answer 1

One possible explanation is that you can't do proper reference updates if you overload assignment operator. It would literally screw up semantics because when people would be expecting references to update, your = operator may as well be doing something else entirely. Not very programmer friendly.

You can use implicit and explicit to/from conversion operators to mitigate some of the seeming shortcomings of not able to overload assignment.