Re: How to create a class that casting to int explicitly only?

From:
Tao Wang <Dancefire@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:44:04 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<66b6cf46-9b05-49d0-944a-c3fd6813bcea@b2g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 30, 7:46 pm, blargg <blargg....@gishpuppy.com> wrote:

In article
<e23c84a3-9bfa-4c5d-87f2-eed0cb157...@a2g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
 Tao Wang <Dancef...@gmail.com> wrote:

...
class Data{
...
public:
   operator int() {...};
};

So, I can use the class like,

Data d(1234);
int a = d;

However, what I really want is that user of class Data have explicitly
cast it to int.

that is, user should write the code like:

int a = (int) d;

other than:

int a = d;

How can I make the cast to int explicitly only?


class Data{
...
public:
   int to_int() {...};

};

Data d(1234);
int a = (int) d; // error
int b = d.to_int(); // OK


This is similar to what I expected, however, I don't want user to
remember the interface to_int(). What I expect is that the code:

Data d(1234);
int a = (int) d; // OK

should be correct, that is, Data can convert to int, however, I don't
want it convert implicitly.

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