Re: [boost] Re: Re: null

From: Jason Hise (chaos_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-21 12:03:48

Angus Leeming wrote:

>You still can't prevent your uses from writing code that results in the
>problems that led you to try and write this space age solution in the
>first place.
>
>    void f(int);
>    void f(string *);
>
>    f(0); // which function is called?
>  
>
Doesn't this call f ( int )?  I was under the impression from reading a 
book by Sutter (I forget which) that 0 is first and foremost an int.  
Thus, f ( 0 ) should call the int version and f ( null ) should call the 
string * version.  This seems very natural and reasonable to me.  What 
is the problem here?

-Jason