From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Vector (container) initialization: the schizophrenic ampersand
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 18:44:57 -0400
Date: 2012-05-18T18:44:57-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc1umhds7q.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ec0f19ed-e243-40b1-99a7-a27351307316@googlegroups.com
Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:
> On Friday, May 18, 2012 8:31:59 AM UTC-5, Robert A Duff wrote:
>>
>> IMHO, a qualified expression is the elegant (and usual)
>> way to resolve ambiguities. Renaming "&" to be "+" just
>> seems confusing, to me.
>>
>> - Bob
>
> Isn't that the whole point of having the qualified expression, to tell
> the compiler "this is the type for this ambiguous operation"?
Yes, exactly.
Although qualified expressions also do some run-time checks, so
it's not the whole point, but the main point.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-17 20:20 Vector (container) initialization: the schizophrenic ampersand Marius Amado-Alves
2012-05-17 20:24 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-05-17 20:26 ` Pascal Obry
2012-05-17 23:33 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-05-18 6:34 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2012-05-18 6:51 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2012-05-18 13:31 ` Robert A Duff
2012-05-18 18:55 ` Shark8
2012-05-18 22:44 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2012-05-19 9:03 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2012-05-19 16:15 ` Robert A Duff
2012-05-21 16:02 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-05-21 17:04 ` Robert A Duff
2012-05-21 17:57 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-05-21 15:57 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-05-19 9:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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