Re: template copy constructor
Vladimir Grigoriev <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> wrote:
The following code is comliled well
odd_ptr<Y> py1( new Y );
std::cout << *py1 << std::endl;
odd_ptr<X> px1;
px1 = py1;
Here template <typename U> odd_ptr<T> & operator=( odd_ptr<U> & rhs )
throw() is called.
However the code
px1 = f<Y>();
is not compiled.
f<Y>() returns a temporary, which cannot bind to a non-const reference, so operator=( odd_ptr<U>& rhs) can't be used.
I though that by analogy with assignment of objects
of the same types at first template <typename U> operator
odd_ptr_ref<U>() will be called and then idd_ptr<T> & operator=(
odd_ptr_ref<T> &rhs ) will be called too.
However I get an error. It seems that the compiler does not want to
call the conversion operator to convert odd_ptr<U> to odd_ptr_ref<T>.
What is the matter?
Try pulling odd_ptr_ref out of odd_ptr class and put it at namespace scope. You see, odd_ptr<T>::operator= accepts
odd_ptr<T>::odd_ptr_ref<U>. But odd_ptr<U> can only convert itself to odd_ptr<U>::odd_ptr_ref<U>. These are two unrelated classes.
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