28 Feb
2004
28 Feb
'04
6:27 p.m.
I guess I don't understand the whole concept now. T* -> void* sounds like "narrowing", since it loses information. int -> long never loses information, so "widening" makes sense to me. What is the criterion?
This is why I like C++'s choice of base and derived, there's never any confusion. You have the concepts of narrowing and widening correct but backwards. You narrow a type to a more specific derived type and widen one to a more general base type. Glen