[boost] Re: boost::any: explicit constructor?
by Kevlin Henney other posts by this author
Feb 28 2004 10:19AM messages near this date
RE: [boost] Re: boost::any: explicit constructor?
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In message <uznb55omh.fsf@[...].com> , David Abrahams
<dave@[...].com> writes
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> The conversion to boost::any isn't a widening conversion in the usual
> sense, though, is it? Normally, a widening conversion preserves not
> only the information but the *interface* of the original data -- you
> wouldn't consider an implicit conversion from int to string a widening
> conversion, would you?
Your assumption is not quite correct: most widening conversions are not
interface preserving.
Kevlin
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