Re: Standard Conversions

On 2008-07-21 11:16:53 -0400, rkldabs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:

> Hi,
> 
> $10.3 sites an example as below. My doubt is on the terminology
> "Standard Conversion" that is mentioned in the comment against the
> statement "Base *bp = &d". When I refer the section $4 it states
> "Standard conversions are implicit conversions defined for built-in
> types".

Yes, and that's correct. But you also have to apply the second rule of
statutory construction: read on. In particular, 4.10 talks about
pointer conversions, including converting a pointer to derived into a
pointer to base.

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  Pete
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Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference
(www.petebecker.com/tr1book)



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