Conversion Operators
What happens when you try to assign a variable of a built-in type, such as int or unsigned short, to an object of a user-defined class? Listing 14.7 brings back the Counter class and attempts to assign a variable of type int to a Counter object.
 | Listing 14.7 will not compile! |
Listing 14.7. Attempting to Assign a Counter to an int
0: // Listing 14.7 1: // This code won't compile! 2: #include <iostream> 3: 4: class Counter 5: { 6: public: 7: Counter(); 8: ~Counter(){} 9: int GetItsVal()const { return itsVal; } 10: void SetItsVal(int x) {itsVal = x; } 11: private: 12: int itsVal; 13: }; 14: 15: Counter::Counter(): 16: itsVal(0) ... |
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