Re: Pro 6, const, and type conversions

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From: Eric Albert
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:00

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In article <rang-927714.15311220102000@news.visi.com>, Anton Rang 
<rang@trillium.adaptec.com> wrote:

> In article <ejalbert-8448C2.14083019102000@nntp.stanford.edu>, Eric 
> Albert <ejalbert@stanford.edu> wrote:
> > I'm by no means an expert on automatic type conversions or 
> > const-ness in C++, but I have some code that compiled without 
> > warnings or errors on Pro 5.3 and now doesn't compile on Pro 6, and 
> > I'm wondering why.
> 
> The implicit conversion from 'char **' to 'const char **' is 
> prohibited in C++; the simplest example I could come up with for this 
> is: [two examples snipped]

That makes some sense to me.  Thanks for the explanation.

-Eric

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Eric Albert         ejalbert@stanford.edu
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