From 5024684957155577962 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,b43d17d27e7171b0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Nicola Musatti Subject: Re: explicit operator T() Date: 2000/12/07 Message-ID: <3A2F60D2.455D58A@divalsim.it>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 702259562 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> <3A2EA5ED.7CD79422@sensor.com> X-Accept-Language: it 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 976214546 mail2news:147 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: ObjectWay S.p.A. X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Nicola.Musatti@ObjectWay.it Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Ron Natalie wrote: [...] > 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. But this requires that all the libraries you may ever use adhere to this convention. Brian and Daniel won me over to their side, now is there any technical reason not to allow conversion operators to be declared explicit so that some form of explicit cast would be required for the conversion to be performed? Best regards, Nicola Musatti --- [ 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. ]