12 Overloading [over]

12.6 Overloaded operators [over.oper]

12.6.5 Subscripting [over.sub]

A subscripting operator function is a function named operator[] that is a non-static member function with exactly one parameter.
For an expression of the form the operator function is selected by overload resolution ([over.match.oper]).
If a member function is selected, the expression is interpreted as
[Example 1: struct X { Z operator[](std::initializer_list<int>); }; X x; x[{1,2,3}] = 7; // OK: meaning x.operator[]({1,2,3}) int a[10]; a[{1,2,3}] = 7; // error: built-in subscript operator — end example]