> I guess I don't understand the whole concept now.  T* -> void* sounds
> like "narrowing", since it loses information.  int -> long never loses
> information, so "widening" makes sense to me.  What is the criterion?

This is why I like C++'s choice of base and derived, there's never any
confusion. You have the concepts of narrowing and widening correct but
backwards. You narrow a type to a more specific derived type and widen one
to a more general base type.

Glen
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