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clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) wrote:

>>2) From a previous post on this group, it looks like the standard will
>>allow one to define conversion operators for pre-existing, source code
>>untouchable data types.  Yes? No? What will this look like? I have the
>>May copy of the WP, and don't see any mention of this.
>
>I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. If you mean can you define
>a conversion operator from a user-defined class to a predefined type
>like int or double, then yes, that has long been part of C++.

I believe he was referring to something like

class myclass{};
operator int(const myclass &arg);

Just like the global equality operators, etc.
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