On 12/12/13 10:15, Simen Kjærås wrote:
Simply put, implicit conversions are not bad, nor good. They are exactly what you use them for.
Conversely, sometimes you want to be able to say, absolutely explicitly, "This function _must_ receive input of _this exact type_ with no implicit conversion allowed even if it normally would be."
You and I both encountered that with Don's BigInt code, and I found his solution to be elegant but fragile (inasmuch as it's easy for a later maintainer to misunderstand why it's the way it is and wrongly "correct" it).
So, you might want to factor that need also into your DIP.
