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
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