implicit.cpp

The following code example is taken from the book
C++ Templates - The Complete Guide, 2nd Edition
by David Vandevoorde, Nicolai M. Josuttis, and Douglas Gregor,
Addison-Wesley, 2017
© Copyright David Vandevoorde, Nicolai M. Josuttis, Douglas Gregor 2017


template<typename DstT, typename SrcT>
DstT implicit_cast (SrcT const& x)  // SrcT can be deduced, but DstT cannot
{
  return x;
}

int main()
{
  double value = implicit_cast<double>(-1);
}