From 2150329174878235465 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,da46f9d6feb862e5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: "Peter Dimov" Subject: Re: Is this well-formed? Date: 1999/04/23 Message-ID: <7fn67r$pg5$1@weber.techno-link.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 469856987 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <7f1nnv$6c$1@weber.techno-link.com> <371655EE.948EA1E6@technologist.com> X-Original-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:33:18 +0300 X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 924845186 27579 128.250.29.16 (23 Apr 1999 05:26:26 GMT) Organization: Multi Media Ltd. X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUANyAEcuEDnX0m9pzZAQGziQF+JhtSr+VSuqGhLVhfdk82SlNGbVBaBKSI ZDv72B1k9t2b6EOf4TwarsUvEPgZX7B1 =e3lC X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Apr 1999 05:26:26 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Andrei Alexandrescu wrote in message news:QQglev00422.199904161429@relay7.UU.NET... > David R Tribble wrote in message > news:371655EE.948EA1E6@technologist.com... > > Gee, wouldn't it be nice if C++ had a 'null' keyword? > > It has. It's spelled "0". I don't see what difference a null keyword would > make. It would make a difference if it had a unique type that is not 'const int'. > As of the original poster's code: I think it's correct. Template function > matching is considered prior doing any conversion. It will fail. Then > regular functions will be considered, with conversions and all. Therefore > f(int *) will kick in. This was my reasoning too. Thanks to all that provided feedback on the issue. -- Peter Dimov Multi Media Ltd. --- [ 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://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]