Is it possible to create custom operators in JavaScript?

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The short answer is no. ECMAScript (the standard JS is based on) does not support operator overloading.

As an aside, in ECMAScript 7, you’ll be able to overload a subset of the standard operators when designing custom value types. Here is a slide deck by language creator and Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich about the subject. This won’t allow arbitary operators, however, and the overloaded meaning will only be applied to value types. <- haha that ended up not happening.

It is possible to use third party tools like sweet.js to add custom operators though that’d require an extra compilation step.

I’ve answered with a solution from outside JavaScript using esprima – this is changing JavaScript and extending it, it’s not native.

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