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- From: kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Quick questions
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 09:31:19 PST
- Organization: GABI Software, Sarl.
- Approved: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
- Message-ID: <KANZE.96Mar28102433@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>
- References: <4j5b26$1e7a@mule1.mindspring.com> <4j7a64$l9i@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- X-Original-Date: 28 Mar 1996 09:24:33 GMT
- In-Reply-To: abell@mindspring.com's message of 27 Mar 1996 15:46:56 GMT
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- Originator: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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- In article <4jajk2$17aq@mule1.mindspring.com> abell@mindspring.com
- (Andrew Bell) writes:
-
- |> clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) wrote [but much edited by me]:
- |> >In article 1e7a@mule1.mindspring.com, abell@mindspring.com (Andrew Bell) writes:
- |> >>About casting operators]
- |> >[[Are you asking] can you define
- |> >a conversion operator from a user-defined class to a predefined type
-
- |> No, I'd want to go the other way. In the case of "pure wrapper"
- |> classes (as I defined in my earlier post), one might want an automatic
- |> cast from the original to the wrapper. In my case, I have created a
- |> class to wrap around an OS-defined struct, to give it access safety
- |> (the particular class contains a type specifier and a union) and
- |> smarter access as well as constructors.
-
- You have it the other way. The conversion operator is called a
- constructor. Thus, to take a concrete example (based on the deleted
- parts of your posting (`stat' is a struct defined by Posix):
-
- class FileStat : stat
- {
- public :
- FileStat( stat const& other ) ;
- // ...
- } ;
-
- If you have a (C) struct stat, it will convert automatically to a
- FileStat. (You can pass it to a function expecting a FileStat, for
- example.)
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