From -4342517269903613519 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f78e5,b43d17d27e7171b0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: "Gene Bushuyev" Subject: Re: explicit operator T() Date: 2000/12/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 701544793 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ References: <3A2D10EE.35544D0A@aixigo.de> X-Priority: 3 X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 976057126 mail2news:23562 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ If you don't want your user-defined operator to be called in implicit conversions (as you call it accidentally) then probably you don't need operator at all. Create a function for conversion purposes and call it explicitly. ------------------------- Gene Bushuyev Sr. R&D Eng. Organ transplants are best left to the professionals (Bart Simpson) "Daniel Frey" wrote in message news:3A2D10EE.35544D0A@aixigo.de... Hi, sorry if this was suggested / discussed before, but would it make sense to allow declaring a cast-operator as 'explicit'? I guess the normal way would be to declare an explicit constructor in the other class but when you don't have access to it (e.g. in a library), it would help to add 'explicit' to the operator. Maybe it also makes sense to think of other operators to be declared 'explicit', to make sure they are not called accidentially... what do you think? Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Frey aixigo AG - Financial Research and Education Schlo�-Rahe-Str. 15, 52072 Aachen, Germany Tel: +49 (0)241 936737-00, Fax: +49 (0)241 936737-99 EMail: D.Frey@aixigo.de "Operator.. give me the number for 911" (Homer Simpson) --- [ 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.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ] [ Note that the FAQ URL has changed! Please update your bookmarks. ] --- [ 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.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ] [ Note that the FAQ URL has changed! Please update your bookmarks. ]