From 7598683296178304700 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,8b7617618a67f610 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.14.113.39!news.alt.net!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail From: "kanze" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: functional cast notation (was Re: Defect: Missing fundamental feature!) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:26:21 CST Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 24 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <1150883950.228449.241670@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1150485390.906845.45740@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1150884966 7116 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2006 10:16:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.160.54.162; posting-account=qsfl8gwAAABZGaLp2a7FeTfDkJamzWYW X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU id k5LAGlVk003896 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:2447 David Abrahams wrote: > AlbertoBarbati@libero.it (Alberto Ganesh Barbati) writes: > > Do you know the rationale why the standard has defined > > function-style casts that way? > No; I'd check D&E if I was curious. Even without checking D&E: function-style casts existed long before the new cast syntax was invented. -- James Kanze GABI Software Conseils en informatique orient�e objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung 9 place S�mard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'�cole, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34 --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]