From 3461283579436175019 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,adfa3ea7cd149e36 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.stueberl.de!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: llewelly.at@xmission.dot.com (Llewelly) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Specialization of a template cast. Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:37:49 GMT Organization: The Illusory Sorting Algorithm Lines: 23 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <86r7gwrcvx.fsf@zorthluthik.foo.bar> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1114584651 4810 158.152.254.254 (27 Apr 2005 06:50:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:50:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:36:50 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mgr1.xmission.com) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: news@xmission.com X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id j3R6bnxi005632; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:37:49 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:46:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 198.60.22.31 X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:4626 AlbertoBarbati@libero.it (Alberto Barbati) writes: > Lucas Galfaso wrote: > > Hi, > > From the standard, it is not clear how you should (a) create a > > specialization from a template cast and (b) use a specific > > specialization on a cast, ie > > > > There's no such thing as a template cast in C++. Please always use the > correct terms if you want to be understood. In this case the correct > term is "template conversion function". [snip] Nit upon nit: The standard uses 'conversion function template'. e.g. 14.8.2.3 . --- [ 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.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]