25 Oct
2004
25 Oct
'04
9:45 p.m.
"Andreas Huber" <ahd6974-spamgroupstrap@yahoo.com> wrote:
colin.rafferty@morganstanley.com wrote:
However, I can see three reasons why it should still be explicit:
3. There is no time when someone would actually want the implicit conversion
Yes there is, I'm using intrusive_ptr and some of my code relies on the implicit conversion (this is useful when you need to pass an intrusive_ptr pointing to this to a function).
Okay. I had not thought of that use. Given this, and the fact that it is hard to accidentally get in trouble, I unrequest the change. -- Colin