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  1. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
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  3. From: cline@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline)
  4. Subject: Re: Is coercion to a reference defined?
  5. In-Reply-To: moudgill@cs.cornell.edu's message of Sun, 6 Sep 1992 18:29:05 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <CLINE.92Sep8235800@sunspot.clarkson.edu>
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  9. Reply-To: cline@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline)
  10. Organization: Paradigm Shift, Inc (C++/Reuse/OOD/OO-mgmt training)
  11. References: <1992Sep6.182905.6603@cs.cornell.edu>
  12. Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:58:00 GMT
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  15. In article <1992Sep6.182905.6603@cs.cornell.edu> moudgill@cs.cornell.edu ( Mayan Moudgill) writes:
  16. ...
  17. >I'd like to define TWO functions:
  18. >     operator T () { return _value;}
  19. >and
  20. >     operator T& () { return _value;}
  21.  
  22. They would, as stated, be ambiguous.  However, you can make the first one
  23. a `const' member function, thereby disambiguating them based on the constness
  24. of the object being converted to a T.
  25.  
  26. ++Marshall
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  28. Marshall Cline
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