Re: conversion sequence

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Kr=FCgler?= <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:33:25 CST
Message-ID:
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Am 19.07.2011 23:22, schrieb Noah Roberts:

Considder:

struct bob
{
bob(ObjectA const&);

template < typename T >
bob(T const&);

void fun() const;
};

struct ref
{
operator bob() const;
};

static_cast<ObjectA>(a_ref_instance).fun();

Where does the standard specify what happens here? I can't find
anywhere that states what method of conversion is preferred when both
constructor and conversion operator could do the job.


Sorry, but your pseudo-code is so incomplete/contradictory that it seems
impossible for me to give a reasonable answer. I tried to complete your
code to a program ending in something like this:

struct ObjectA {};

struct bob
{
  bob(ObjectA const&);

  template < typename T >
  bob(T const&);

  void fun() const;
};

struct ref
{
    operator bob() const;
} a_ref_instance;

int main() {
   static_cast<ObjectA>(a_ref_instance).fun();
}

Looking at this, I do not understand how you could expect that a ref
object can be converted into an ObjectA object. Neither do I understand
where the fun() function from ObjectA enters the game.

What I want to happen is the conversion operator get called on
a_ref_instance and then the copy constructor to make a bob equivalent to
the one provided by a_ref_instance.

Is there a way to force that sequence? What I'm getting is a call to
the templated constructor in bob with ref as T.


Please provide a complete example if you want serious help.

Greetings from Bremen,

- Daniel Kr?gler

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