Overloading Unary operator ~ (to reverse the string), C#

Overloading Unary operator ~ (to reverse the string)

//Rextester.Program.Main is the entry point for your code. Don't change it.
//Compiler version 4.0.30319.17929 for Microsoft (R) .NET Framework 4.5

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace Rextester
{
    class Person
    {
        string name;
        
        public Person(string st)
        {
            name = st;
        }
        
        // string t = ~p1 will call this operator overloaded method
        public static string operator ~(Person tmp)  // unary operator ~ overloaded here, returns string
        {
            string t = string.Empty;
            for(int i=tmp.name.Length-1; i>=0; i--)  // reversing the string
                t=t+tmp.name[i];
            return t;
        }
    }

public class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            
            Person p1=new Person("Steve Jobs");
            // usually ~ (tilde) sign used for writing destructor
            // here we give special meaning to reverse the string stored in an object
            string strRev = ~p1;  // hence it must be overloaded, the object 'p1' will be passed to 'tmp' object 
            
            Console.WriteLine("Reversed : " + strRev);
            
            p1=new Person("Mark Zuckerberg");
            strRev = ~p1;
            
            Console.WriteLine("Reversed : " + strRev);
        }
    }
}


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