Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!jimad
From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: conversions
Message-ID: <54079@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 90 18:13:31 GMT
References: <7633@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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>I realize that a class that works Exactly
>like an int for both reading and assignment probably isn't very
>useful, but should I be able to do it this way?

Actually, such a beast might actually be vaguely useful -- because it differs
from int in one important way:  INT is a first-class class and as 
such can be inherited from, whereas int is a primitive.

Consider a class LINK and a class INT:  create LINKED_INT by multiplying
inheriting from LINK and INT.  LINKED_INTs can be linked together and
tranversed using the capabilities of LINK, and LINKED_INTs can be used
as-if ints in math expressions.  ....one could then go on and use these
capabilities to make queues of INTs or stacks of INTs if one was really
perverse....  Weak example, but you get my drift.