From 6151945027758630999 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,adfa3ea7cd149e36 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!nntp.abs.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: AlbertoBarbati@libero.it (Alberto Barbati) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Specialization of a template cast. Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:31:15 GMT Organization: [Infostrada] Lines: 35 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <86r7gwrcvx.fsf@zorthluthik.foo.bar> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1114626686 20348 158.152.254.254 (27 Apr 2005 18:31:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:31:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Greylisting: NO DELAY (Relay+Sender autoqualified); processed by UCSD_GL-v1.2 on mailbox7.ucsd.edu; Wed, 27 April 2005 00:42:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Accept-Language: en, it X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id j3RIVFEl015803; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:31:15 +1000 (EST) X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:42:10 MET DST X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Spamscanner: mailbox7.ucsd.edu (v1.5 Dec 3 2004 17:34:44, 0.0/5.0 3.0.0) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 82283 j3R7gCYl089080 mailbox7.ucsd.edu) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:4629 Llewelly wrote: > 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 . > Yes, that would be a more correct expression. I was deceived by 14.5.2/5 where the wording "template conversion function" is actually used, probably a mistake that escaped the "template function" vs. "function template" war. Alberto --- [ 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 ]