From 4377058080048961319 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,e1300df19f14dad5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-06-16 11:23:33 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!koriel!male.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!cygany!ball From: ball@cygany.Eng.Sun.COM (Mike Ball) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Is this a valid conversion operator? Date: 15 Jun 1994 23:14:24 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2to20g$p7v@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: Reply-To: ball@cygany.Eng.Sun.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: cygany.eng.sun.com In article 94Jun15133003@deneb.cygnus.com, jason@cygnus.com (Jason Merrill) writes: > >>>>> Brian Glendenning writes: > > > "test1.cc", line 8: Error: Cannot define a conversion from complex to complex. > As far as I can tell, the WP doesn't disallow that, but it also will never > call the conversion operator automatically: The workingpaper went through a phase when it did disallow it, and then relented because some problems were pointed out with that (virtual conversions, for example). You probably need a later version of the compiler. -Mike Ball- SunSoft