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From: atteson@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Kevin Atteson )
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Subject: anomaly with g++; named return values
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Date: 23 Apr 91 22:11:07 GMT
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I have the following two unrelated questions.
I think responses are best sent to me.

1.  Consider a class X which has conversions both to and from another
class Y.  When I do "return x" with x of class X and the return type
of class X, the compiler causes x to be converted to Y and then back.
I'm using g++ version 1.34.  Is this what C++ is supposed to do?
Perhaps I'm using classes and conversions in a way that they aren't
meant to be used.

2.  Is it possible to name the return variable so that one
doesn't have to create a dummy variable of that type?
If not, I suppose its only a minor nuissance.

Kevin Atteson