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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: About conversions
Date: 2000/11/21
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In article <u8zqe5klh.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>,
  Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> convert an out parameter would happen about as often as
> needing to convert an in parameter, or a function result.

Not at all! Because you think of an out parameter as an Lvalue,
and conversions are not allowed as left sides in assignments.
If you really believe the above, you would want backwards
conversions on the left of assigments.

Note that all other comparable languages allow conversions for
input parameters, NONE of them allows these strange out
conversions.

Good advice is to avoid this feature almost always.


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