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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: reference operators and reference conversion
Message-ID: <70655@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 20:55:48 GMT
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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ARM section 5.4 pg 69 states:

"An object may be explicitly converted to a reference type X& if a pointer to
that object may be explicitly converted to an X*.  Constructors or 
conversion functions are not called as the result of a cast to a reference."

Is this perhaps an incomplete statement?  Shouldn't the correct statement be:

"An object may be explicitly converted to a reference type X& if a pointer to
that object may be explicitly converted to an X*.  Constructors or 
conversion functions are not called as the result of a cast to a reference
except in the case of a user defined reference conversion function
matching the cast."

????