On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:21:37 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Perhaps I have been misinformed, but my understanding of C type-casts >> is that (where possible), a cast like `int(var)` merely tells the >> compiler to temporarily disregard the type of var and treat it as if it >> were an int. In other words, it's a compiler instruction rather than a >> conversion function. > > You are misinformed. The result of a cast in C or C++ behaves as if a > temporary was created:
Fair enough. Thank you. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
