Re: [Boost-users] How to check for implicit type conversion WITHOUTchecking the source object's interface

I'm trying to find a way to see if a given object is convertible to std::string, but with certain restrictions. Normally, is_convertible<> would be fine, but in this case it doesn't work for my needs.

Here's the situation in more detail. I've got a class Foo with a string conversion operator:

class Foo { public: operator std::string () const; };

I want some kind of is_convertible to return FALSE, but something like is_convertible to return TRUE. Basically, I want is_convertible to check to see if the target type (std::string) has an implicit constructor taking the input type; I *don't* want is_convertible to check to see if the input type has a conversion-to-target-type function.

Is there a way to do this?

Yes, it's quite cunning and we use it to implement is_enum: a conversion sequence is only permitted one user defined conversion, so try: is_convertible where convertible_to_string is a class with a constructor that accepts a string as a single argument. I think that will do it, I hope so anyway! John.