Overloading = operator in C#

Question

OK, I know that it's impossible, but it was the best way to formulate the title of the question. The problem is, I'm trying to use my own custom class instead of float (for deterministic simulation) and I want to the syntax to be as close as possible. So, I certainly want to be able to write something like

FixedPoint myNumber = 0.5f;

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Yes, by creating an implicit type cast operator for FixedPoint if this class was written by you.

class FixedPoint
{
    public static implicit operator FixedPoint(double d)
    {
        return new FixedPoint(d);
    }
}

If it's not obvious to the reader/coder that a double can be converted to FixedPoint, you may also use an explicit type cast instead. You then have to write:

FixedPoint fp = (FixedPoint) 3.5;