Overload bracket operators [] to get and set

Question

I have the following class:

class risc { // singleton
    protected:
        static unsigned long registers[8];

    public:
        unsigned long operator [         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

class risc { // singleton
protected:
    static unsigned long registers[8];

public:
    unsigned long operator [](int i) const    {return registers[i];}
    unsigned long & operator [](int i) {return registers[i];}
};

Answer 2

You need to return a reference from your operator[] so that the user of the class use it for setting the value. So the function signature would be unsigned long& operator [](int i).