Re: Avoiding ambiguities

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:22:53 -0400
Message-ID:
<f8qfhc$46u$1@news.datemas.de>
MiG wrote:

I have the following operators declared in a class:

// Provides R/W direct access to the matrix.
__forceinline const T& operator[](USHORT ndx) const throw()
{ _ASSERT(ndx < 16); return(_mx[ndx]); }
__forceinline T& operator[](USHORT ndx) throw()
{ _ASSERT(ndx < 16); return(_mx[ndx]); }

// Returns pointer to matrix data.
__forceinline operator const T*() const throw()
{ return(_mx); }
__forceinline operator T*() throw()
{ return(_mx); }


Please, when posting here, try to remove all compiler-specific
junk, like that ___blah nonsense. Your code is not easy to read
with all that crud in it.

When I compile it I get the following errors:

error C2666: 'Matrix4<T>::operator []' : 4 overloads have similar
conversions
       with
       [
           T=float
       ]
       d:\~alibrary\prj\cpp\xgl\0.1a1\inc\primitives.hpp(1515): could
be 'float &Matrix4<T>::operator [](USHORT) throw()'
       with
       [
           T=float
       ]
       d:\~alibrary\prj\cpp\xgl\0.1a1\inc\primitives.hpp(1513): or
'const float &Matrix4<T>::operator [](USHORT) throw() const'
       with
       [
           T=float
       ]
       or 'built-in C++ operator[(const float *, int)'
       or 'built-in C++ operator[(float *, int)'

Is there a way of avoiding these errors without having to create a
method for, say, replacing the functionality of the T* operators?


Well, just don't provide the operator T*. Why do you think you need
it in the first place?

V
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