Overloading ++ for both pre and post increment

Question

The postfix version of the increment operator takes a dummy int parameter in order to disambiguate:

// prefix
CSample& operator++()
{
  // implement increment logic on this instance, return reference to it.
  return *this;
}

// postfix
CSample operator++(int)
{
  CSample tmp(*this);
  operator++(); // prefix-increment this instance
  return tmp;   // return value before increment
}

The standard pattern for pre-increment and post-increment for type T

T& T::operator++() // pre-increment, return *this by reference
{
 // perform operation


 return *this;
}

T T::operator++(int) // post-increment, return unmodified copy by value
{
     T copy(*this);
     ++(*this); // or operator++();
     return copy;
}

(You can also call a common function for performing the increment, or if it's a simple one-liner like ++ on a member, just do it in both)

why we can't avail both pre and post increment for our own types at the same time.

You can:

class CSample {
public:

     int m_iValue;
     CSample() : m_iValue(0) {}
     CSample(int val) : m_iValue(val) {}

     // Overloading ++ for Pre-Increment
     int /*CSample& */ operator++() {
        ++m_iValue;
        return m_iValue;
     }

    // Overloading ++ for Post-Increment
    int operator++(int) {
          int value = m_iValue;
          ++m_iValue;
          return value;
      }
  };

  #include <iostream>

  int main()
  {
      CSample s;
      int i = ++s;
      std::cout << i << std::endl; // Prints 1
      int j = s++;
      std::cout << j << std::endl; // Prints 1
  }

[N4687]

16.5.7

The user-defined function called operator++ implements the prefix and postfix ++ operator. If this function is a non-static member function with no parameters, or a non-member function with one parameter, it defines the prefix increment operator++ for objects of that type. If the function is a non-static member function with one parameter (which shall be of type int) or a non-member function with two parameters (the second of which shall be of type int), it defines the postfix increment operator ++ for objects of that type. When the postfix increment is called as a result of using the ++ operator, the int argument will have value zero

Example:

struct X {
  X&   operator++();    // prefix ++a
  X    operator++(int); // postfix a++
};

struct Y { };

Y&   operator++(Y&);      // prefix ++b
Y    operator++(Y&, int); // postfix b++

void f(X a, Y b) {
  ++a; // a.operator++();
  a++; // a.operator++(0);
  ++b; // operator++(b);
  b++; // operator++(b, 0);

  a.operator++();     // explicit call: like ++a;
  a.operator++(0);    // explicit call: like a++;
  operator++(b);      // explicit call: like   ++b;
  operator++(b, 0);   // explicit call: like b++;
}