Re: [Boost-users] typesafe typedef that is not implicitly convertible

From: Gottlob Frege (gottlobfrege_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-23 13:10:50

On 1/23/07, pwm <pwmiller_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> I am unable to find it now, but I thought I saw that there is a boost
> way to define a typedef using a unique class that cannot be implicitly
> converted to another type.  Thus,
>
> typedef int Foo;
> void bar( Foo a );
>
> would compile only with bar( Foo(3) ) not bar(3)
>
> Is this capability in Boost 1.33 or am I hallucinating?
>
> Thanks,
> Phil

strong_typedef.hpp?  (http://www.boost.org/boost/strong_typedef.hpp)

Tony