Re: Templated cast operator
uvts_cvs@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi everybody, do you think the next little chunk of code has to
compile?
struct foo
{
template <typename T> operator T() const {return T();}
};
int main()
{
return 1 + foo();
}
I thought that it has to compile because we can cast the foo object to
int and pass it to operator +, but some compilers seem not to agree
with me (but some others do!). What do you think? Does it adhere to
the ISO standard?
Isn't it also true that we can just as well cast a 'foo' object to
'long' or 'char' or 'double'? So, how (on what basis) should the
compiler pick 'int' here?
V
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