Re: Is coercion to a reference defined?

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From: Marshall Cline
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 04:58

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In article <1992Sep6.182905.6603@cs.cornell.edu> moudgill@cs.cornell.edu ( Mayan Moudgill) writes:
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>I'd like to define TWO functions:
>     operator T () { return _value;}
>and
>     operator T& () { return _value;}

They would, as stated, be ambiguous.  However, you can make the first one
a `const' member function, thereby disambiguating them based on the constness
of the object being converted to a T.

++Marshall
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