Re: Token is an int ?

On 3/17/07, Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> As the comment above says, characters represent themselves, i.e. you can say:
>
> Token::Type token = 'a';
>
> The conversion from character to int is implicit. However, there is no
> standard conversion from char to enum, i.e. the above wouldn't be possible
> if Token::Type was an enumeration type.
> (If MSVC allows an implicit conversion from character types to an enum type,
> it is wrong. (See section 4.7 of the spec.)
>

Yes, you are right, implicit conversion is not done by msvc, I was
also suggesting a change  to the related uses to an explicit cast:

Token::Type token = Token::Type('a');

D.