I'm trying to implement an embedded list template class.
It looks something like:

template <class T> class emList {
   ...
   emList *    _next;
   T           _value;
   ...
};

I'd like to define TWO functions:

     operator T () { return _value;}

and
     operator T& () { return _value;}

Is the second definition legal?
How would the compiler resolve them?

:)
Mayan

In article <1992Sep6.182905.6603@cs.cornell.edu> moudgill@cs.cornell.edu ( Mayan Moudgill) writes:
...
>I'd like to define TWO functions:
>     operator T () { return _value;}
>and
>     operator T& () { return _value;}

They would, as stated, be ambiguous.  However, you can make the first one
a `const' member function, thereby disambiguating them based on the constness
of the object being converted to a T.

++Marshall
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