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linh (l.) dang wrote:

> Since static_cast is not always safe, did anyone consider a set of
> implicit_cast<T> template functions as part of the standard library ?

They were considered at the meeting in Tokyo (Nov. '95) but 
rejected as an extension proposal that arrived just too late.
(I gather they were left out of the proposal for the original 
suite of casts because they could be implemented in the library, 
but nobody got around to proposing them to the library group 
until too late.)

If they find wide use they might be added to the next C++ standard.

> These functions are efficient, safe and might be the fatal blow to the
> old-style cast.

One can dream, at least.

Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org  http://www.cantrip.org/
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