From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: About conversions
Date: 2000/11/24
Date: 2000-11-25T09:13:47+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8vnvsb$pro$2@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8ve71q$meh$1@nnrp1.deja.com
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"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> a �crit dans le message news: 8ve71q$meh$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> 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 for tagged types, conversions ARE allowed as Lvalue
(another not-well-know-feature!)
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-20 0:00 About conversions Sandro Binetti
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-22 3:27 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-11-22 4:54 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-22 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-22 0:00 ` Tristan Gingold
2000-11-24 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2000-11-24 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-11-21 2:57 ` DuckE
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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2000-11-23 6:21 Christoph Grein
2000-11-23 0:00 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2000-11-23 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-23 0:00 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2000-11-28 2:20 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-24 0:00 Christoph Grein
2000-11-28 1:33 ` Robert Dewar
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