In article 95Jun8212111@colobus.cv.nrao.edu, bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:

>Is the C++ standard going to guarantee that code like the following
>will work:

>I thought that while the ARM disallowed this conversion (derived reference to
>base reference) in a templated global function, that it was certain to be in
>the forthcoming standard. However, I have recently had a knowledgable source
>tell me that this might not happen.

Your source isn't very knowledgeable, and evidently hasn't read the
draft standard. These and other conversions are now explicitly allowed.

It takes a while for compilers to catch up to language changes, however.
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com