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From: | "Victor Bazarov" <vAbazarov AT dAnai DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: GENERAL DATA TYPE (Do you need one ?) |
Date: | Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:29:22 -0800 |
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"Traveler" <traveler AT netti DOT fi> wrote... > > There is no need. A generic "replacement for everything" object > > will be _unable_ to do anything -- it simply will not be able to > > have _any_ functionality. > Are you sure ??? :) I am sure, and there is no need for grinning. There is no joke. > Besides, we already have a type for > > that. It's called "pointer to void". > > > Yeah, if you want to do those type conversions by hand... > void* p; > p = (int*)new int[500]; There is no need for a cast. Any pointer to int can be converted to void* implicitly. The language provides that. The reverse is not true. To make a void* into int* you need a cast. BTW, how would your Object type do all the conversions? By foot? Victor -- Please remove capital A's from my address when replying by mail
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