Re: [boost] [xint] Unary operator+

On 8 May 2010 20:55, Chad Nelson <chad.thecomfychair@gmail.com> wrote:

I suspected that would be the reason for it. I couldn't think of anything else it would be useful for.

I've also seen it used to induce integral promotion, and thus affect overload selection. For example: uint8_t x = 32; std::cout << x << +x << "\n";