On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 26 November 2012 00:24, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I remember this sort of thing un-fondly from my C++ days, but it
>> doesn't make me like our current behavior any better.
>
> You can also make a constructor with a single argument "explicit", and
> thereby prevent implicit conversions. So yes, C++ distinguishes
> between
> explicit, assignment, and implicit casting in a way that is, in broad
> strokes, at least as sophisticated as PostgreSQL.
OK, I stand corrected.
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