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vavasis@CS.Cornell.EDU (Stephen Vavasis) wrote:

>I would like to make a plea to the compiler-writers who read this
>group: please issue warnings for syntactic trouble spots!  Implicit
>type conversion probably creates other traps that I haven't thought
>of.  C++ programmers like me need help from the compiler to navigate
>the traps!

What about when I create a normal object?

MyClass* pMyObject = new MyClass(Initializer);

Should this also generate a warning?  If the syntax was exceptional,
but legal,  then I'd say'd it should generate a warning.  However,
this syntax is not exception and is used quite frequently.

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