You could think about is as a kind of function call:

(operator operand1 operand2 ...) 

There is nothing very special about it. If you overload operators in C++ (and many other languages that allow it) you often have to define this kind of function exactly that way:

MyClass operator+(MyClass const& x, MyClass const& y); 

You could think about it as a kind of function call:

(operator operand1 operand2 ...) 

There is nothing very special about it. If you overload operators in C++ (and many other languages that allow it) you often have to define this kind of function exactly that way:

MyClass operator+(MyClass const& x, MyClass const& y); 

You could think about is as a kind of function call:

what_to_do operators 

There is nothing very special about it. If you overload operators in C++ (and many other languages that allow it) you often have to define this kind of function exactly that way:

MyClass operator+(MyClass const& x, MyClass const& y); 

You could think about is as a kind of function call:

(operator operand1 operand2 ...) 

There is nothing very special about it. If you overload operators in C++ (and many other languages that allow it) you often have to define this kind of function exactly that way:

MyClass operator+(MyClass const& x, MyClass const& y);