[cfe-dev] LibC++ v3.8 - Problems with ISO C wrapper headers

[Martin J. O'Riordan via cfe-dev]

Couldn't agree more, and when 'explicit' was been added for constructors with a single argument, I argued at the time that it should also apply to overloaded conversion operators for the same reason that 'explicit' was added to constructors.  It was not approved in C++98, but thankfully it was added later.  I personally detest implicit conversions because of the number of subtle bugs they introduce.

	MartinO

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr D. Chisnall [mailto:dc552 at hermes.cam.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Chisnall
Sent: 25 January 2016 9:38

Implicit casts are probably the most dangerous misfeature to ever end up in mainstream programming languages, or at least in the top three with arbitrary pointer arithmetic and null-terminated strings.