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  1. Path: cs.mu.OZ.AU!bounce-back
  2. From: willer@carolian.com (Steve Willer)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  4. Subject: Re: Quick questions
  5. Date: 27 Mar 96 03:10:04 GMT
  6. Organization: Carolian Systems, Toronto ON
  7. Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
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  17. Originator: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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  19. clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) wrote:
  20.  
  21. >>2) From a previous post on this group, it looks like the standard will
  22. >>allow one to define conversion operators for pre-existing, source code
  23. >>untouchable data types.  Yes? No? What will this look like? I have the
  24. >>May copy of the WP, and don't see any mention of this.
  25. >
  26. >I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. If you mean can you define
  27. >a conversion operator from a user-defined class to a predefined type
  28. >like int or double, then yes, that has long been part of C++.
  29.  
  30. I believe he was referring to something like
  31.  
  32. class myclass{};
  33. operator int(const myclass &arg);
  34.  
  35. Just like the global equality operators, etc.
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