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  1. From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
  2. Message-ID: <4gidr8$86n@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
  3. X-Original-Date: 22 Feb 1996 18:49:12 GMT
  4. Path: in1.uu.net!bounce-back
  5. Date: 22 Feb 96 20:21:07 GMT
  6. Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
  7. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  8. Subject: Re: Explicit? What's that?
  9. Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
  10. References: <4gg7df$76c@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <4gg8p5$lcq@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>
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  15.  
  16. clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) writes:
  17.  
  18. >The only advantage I can see for an "explicit" conversion operator is
  19. >that a name for a complicated type, especially one involving pointers
  20. >or references, might be inconvenient and not intuitive. In that
  21. >case you might prefer to be able to cast to char**& instead of thinking
  22. >up a name for that type.
  23.  
  24. `explicit' conversion operations might be useful in templates.
  25. They would make it easy for a template to work both with data types
  26. that have an explicit conversion operator and also with data types
  27. which just use an implicit conversion operator.
  28.  
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  30. Fergus Henderson                 WWW: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh
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