Hello,

I would think that the code below should be correct.  However, under GNU
gcc 2.7.2 and VC++ 4.2, it gives a compile time error on the first
"getline".  Am I misunderstanding something in the standard or do both
these compilers have the same bug?

Regards

Philip Gruebele

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/////
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

class A
{
public:
 inline operator string&(void) {return value;}
protected:
 string  value;
};

void func(void)
{
 A  a;
 ifstream  input("xxx");

 getline(input, a);   // ERROR 'getline' none of the 2 overloads can
convert parameter 2 from type 'class A'
 getline(input, (string&)a); // OK
}
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