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From: rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis)
Subject: Re: Overloading typecast
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.235416.16326@alias.com>
Keywords: overloading operators typecasting
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 23:54:16 GMT

Daniel Mark Gessel <gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu> writes:
|I have seen:
|class X {
|  public: 
|    overload char *()
|}
|meaning overload the (char *) operator so that (char *)X can be meaningful.

I think you mean:

	struct X {
		operator char *()
	};

[I prefer "struct" to "class"..]

You can use "operator" methods to provide user-defined conversions
to/from user-defined and other types.

						Reid
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