Re: How to do type convertion for template class?

From:
Allen <Allen.Chenal@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:58:58 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<9b67c809-8f64-4b34-be83-1c76483cae11@b41g2000pra.googlegroups.com>
On 12=D4 25=C8=D5, =CF =CE=E77=CA=B131=B7=D6, Rolf Magnus <ramag...@t-o=
nline.de> wrote:

Allen wrote:

For example, define vector class as following:

namespace blas {

template<class T> class vector {
...
 inline vector<T> operator=()
 {
   vector<T> t(*this);
   return t;
 }


operator= needs an argument - the object to copy from. 'this' is actual=

ly

the object to copy _to_.


Yes, I made a mistake here.

};

}

Now define two instances:

blas::vector<double> a;
a = ...;
blas::vector<std::complex<double>> b;
b = a;

When compile the codes, c++ compiler will tell operator = is not
overloaded for type std::complex.
How to solve it?


Well, you can make the operator= a template, too.

template<class T> class vector {
    ...
    template<class U>
    inline vector<T>& operator=(const vector<U>& rhs)
    {
        // do your copy operation
        return *this;
    }

};


It does work now. Thank you.

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