🚀 go-pugleaf

kanze <kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de> wrote:

>
>The surprise occurs when you `accidentally' pass a temporary, such as
>the result of an implicit conversion.  Consider the following:
. . .
>
>I suppose the best rule would be to simply ban implicit conversions,
>and make the programmer say what he means.  But I rather suspect that
>the amount of code that this would break will prohibit any such
>change.

Yesterday, on compuserve I said almost exactly the same thing.

Let there be a #pragma or -something- that turns off this awful
creation of temporaries.

Ralph



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