Re: cout printing and function tracing

From:
Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:18:29 +1300
Message-ID:
<8rj6hlFpiuU3@mid.individual.net>
On 02/11/11 11:00 AM, Jacopo wrote:

On 10 Feb, 19:51, James Kanze<james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

The order function arguments are evaluated is unspecified. The
only order guaranteed in your output is that the characters
"0 6 7 8" appear in that order. The *n* can appear in
practically any order, and in almost any place within or before
these characters.


Ok, thanks.
I've another question: nearly the same code, without "explicit"
keyword on C(int).

class C {
private:
     int d;
public:
     C(string s=""): d(s.size()) {}
     C(int n): d(n)


Missing {}?

     operator int() {return d;}
     C operator+(C x) {return C(d+x.d);}
};

main() {


missing int.

     C a, b("pippo"), c(3);
     cout<<c+4;
}

It does not compile, giving an error of "ambiguous overload for
?operator+? in ?c + 4? ". I'm thinking that:
- the c+4 expression calls C operator+(C x)
- the "4" integer gets implicitly converted in a temporary C object
and then passed to x parameter
- and so the body executed
Where is the ambiguity ? Perhaps, with standard + operator ?


Yes, c can be converted to int, so you could have

c.operator int() + 4;

or

c + C(4)

Now you can see why conversion operators are a pain!

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