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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic array allocation and STL equivalents?
Date: 12 Feb 2005 13:52:17 -0500
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> I have an impression that C++ resolution rules are strictly bottom-up,
> ...

Yes.  I believe that's why C++ has the kludge of putting "L" or "U" at
the end of an integer literal.  The resolution rules can't tell the
intended type from the context.  (The implicit conversion rules add
some confusion on top of all that.)

That kind of kludge wouldn't work for Ada, where there are more than a
few integer types around the place!

It's also nice that Ada allows overloaded enumeration literals
and string literals.

- Bob