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From: "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <trelony@typhoon.spb.ru>
Subject: Who said in C++ there are no functions with different result types and same signatures?
Date: 1998/01/05
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Hi!

  Don't say I am wrong, there are no such functions. I know it (and don't like it). But there
is one exception - casting operators. It can help us to write something which will look like
several functions with different result types.

class foo {
  public:
    foo (_arglist) : arglist(_alglist) {}
    operator T1() { do_smth1;}
    operator T2() { do_smth2;}
    ............

  private:
    arglist;
};

And now we can write :

  T1 t1=foo(...);
  T2 t2=foo(...); // different calls !!!!

As in case with static methods and since it can be emulated maybe it is good idea to include
the
possibility of defining such functions in the standard?

Best wishes,
  Alexey.



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