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- From: jss@lucid.com (Jerry Schwarz)
- Subject: Re: Covariant Types in Derived Classes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.004037.1121@lucid.com>
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- Reply-To: jss@lucid.com (Jerry Schwarz)
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- References: <1992Aug8.210716.14741@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <713504630snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> <1992Aug13.162956.10279@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 00:40:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.162956.10279@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>, mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
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- |>
- |> Open letter to the Gurus of C++: Is there a preferred
- |> terminology for expressing `this stuff'? Can one be
- |> created for the present need? There's been more than one
- |> discussion locked in violent agreement for want of it.
- |>
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- At the last X3J16 meeting people were using "conversion" vs. "coercion".
- In the past I've used "conversion" vs. "(bitwise)reinterpretation",
- Any nomenclature seems ok as long as it is clear.
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- I use "cast" solely to refer to the syntactic construct. That
- is, both conversions and coercions are casts. You can use it
- for coercions if you want, but you're just begging to be
- misunderstood if you do so.
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- -- Jerry Schwarz
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