Overloading (),[] operators in c++ [closed]

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How would you overload the () and [] operators in c++? Justify with some code. Won't it affect the integrity of the programming language?

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It can't affect integrity of the programming language simply because operator overloading can be performed for user-defined types only. It is impossible to overload operators for built-in types in C++. You cannot change the behavior of [] with data pointers (that covers the arrays as well). You cannot change the behavior of () with function pointers. In other words, core language features of C++ cannot be overloaded.

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Here's an example:

class Test {
  const int size = 128;
  int data[size];
public:
  Test() { 
    // allocate memory for data, etc.
  }

  int& operator[](int index) {
    return data[index];
  }
};