Strong types and implicit conversions, doesn’t this sound like incompatible features ? It can be argued that they are compatible, in fact. We saw why it could be useful to inherit from the underlying type’s features, and if the underlying type is implicitly convertible to something then you might want to inherit that feature too […]
Strong types are a way to add a meaning to objects by giving them a meaningful name, by using types. This lets the compiler, human beings, and developers understand better the intent of a piece of code. We’ve been exploring strong types on Fluent C++. I focus here on how to define strong types conversions. If you want to catch […]
