Explicit Conversion Operators
This lesson explains how conversion operators can be overloaded explicitly in C++.
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Asymmetry in C++98 #
In C++98, the explicit keyword was only supported for conversion constructors. Conversion operators converted user-defined objects implicitly.
All this changed in C++11. Now, we can overload conversion operators to explicitly prevent and permit conversions.
Let’s suppose that a class called MyClass can perform conversions from class A to MyClass ...