Using Overloaded Operators
Why can't I use the overloaded operators on type 'X'? If type 'X' is a reference object, you won't be able to consume any of the overloaded managed operators it might have defined. This is because there's a real impedance mismatch between operator overloading and the fact that in MC++ reference objects have to be accessed through pointers. Since standard C++, from which MC++ sort of came out, explicitly defines semantics for standard operators on pointers, such as the meaning of order relations (<, >, =, etc.), the use of actual operators would conflict with them.

Note that you should be able to use some overloaded operators on value types, though.