Re: [Boost-users] [units] How to assign "ft" to an si::length?

AMDG Terry Golubiewski wrote:

Yep, that's it. Sorry. I thought they were equivalent. Hmm. Could you please point me to somewhere that explains the difference between implicit and explicit construction?

X x = y; is defined to call the copy constructor of X. This requires an implicit conversion from y to X. X x(y); does normal overload resolution for the constructor. In Christ, Steven Watanabe