From 4001956292993585519 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,b43d17d27e7171b0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Ron Natalie Subject: Re: explicit operator T() Date: 2000/12/06 Message-ID: <3A2EA5ED.7CD79422@sensor.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 701901272 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ References: <3A2D10EE.35544D0A@aixigo.de> <3a2d965b.14703165@news.csrlink.net> <90m70n$ebt$1@news-int.gatech.edu> X-Accept-Language: en X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 976136094 mail2news:12043 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: Sensor Systems X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:50:28 EST Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ "Brian McNamara!" wrote: > > >There is quite a history available on deja for this. The basic result. > > explicit operator int () const; > >is spelled > > int as_int () const; > >or whatever other naming convention you may like. > > ...thus making it impossible to write template code that does explicit > conversions. > Not impossible at all. You don't need the typename in template. T convert() const; works just fine and is less cumbersome that C++ style cast notation on the callers part. --- [ 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. ]