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Article #3409Re: Explicit? What's that?
From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 20:21
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 20:21
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clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) writes:
>The only advantage I can see for an "explicit" conversion operator is
>that a name for a complicated type, especially one involving pointers
>or references, might be inconvenient and not intuitive. In that
>case you might prefer to be able to cast to char**& instead of thinking
>up a name for that type.
`explicit' conversion operations might be useful in templates.
They would make it easy for a template to work both with data types
that have an explicit conversion operator and also with data types
which just use an implicit conversion operator.
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Fergus Henderson WWW: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh
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From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Message-ID: <4gidr8$86n@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> X-Original-Date: 22 Feb 1996 18:49:12 GMT Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!in1.uu.net!bounce-back Date: 22 Feb 96 20:21:07 GMT Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Explicit? What's that? Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne References: <4gg7df$76c@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <4gg8p5$lcq@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUBMSzQP+EDnX0m9pzZAQEJ9QGAhFIwhP9WA4t5w0etQA4Xj0OQbtOno9ru eMxCMafzTx17hEDkZTOrHBiwGdH5Qv88 =LrrS