Integral promotions

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From: Jason Merrill
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:12

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Why is the conversion int -> long (or unsigned int -> unsigned long) not
considered an integral promotion?  

I am in the situation of trying to take either a pair of longs (with
default arguments) or a double for creation of a Fraction.  If I do
something like 

Fraction(1), 

my compiler (BC++ 3.0) complains about ambiguity.  This seems wrong to me.

--
Jason Merrill
jason@jarthur.claremont.edu

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