Conversation operator as a lval?

[Matt]

Does C++ provide a means to use a conversion operator as a lval?

ie, I want:

class superInt
{
public:
operator int() { return this->value; }
private:
int value;
};

....to instead be this:

class superInt
{
public:
int& operator int() { return this->value; }
private:
int value;
};

....which will not compile.

I suspect the C++ language designers avoided this on purpose, but I
thought I would ask here just in case there is a means to do this (in
some other way then I present above).

Such a thing would save me time re-writing a bunch of overloaded
operators for superInt (among other things).

-Matt
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[Victor Bazarov]

Matt wrote:

Does C++ provide a means to use a conversion operator as a lval?\
Sure.
ie, I want:

class superInt
{
public:
operator int() { return this->value; }
Should probably be

operator int() const { return this->value; }
private:
int value;
};

...to instead be this:

class superInt
{
public:
int& operator int() { return this->value; }
operator int&() { return this->value; }
private:
int value;
};

...which will not compile.
Of course.

I suspect the C++ language designers avoided this on purpose,
No, they didn't.
but I
thought I would ask here just in case there is a means to do this (in
some other way then I present above).
Very good choice.
Such a thing would save me time re-writing a bunch of overloaded
operators for superInt (among other things).

But it is rather dangerous. Be careful.

Victor

[Matt]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:01:17 -0500, Victor Bazarov
<v.********@comAcast.net> wrote:

operator int&() { return this->value; }
Great, I'm glad I asked here. Thanks!

Such a thing would save me time re-writing a bunch of overloaded
operators for superInt (among other things).

But it is rather dangerous. Be careful.

Yes, I can see where it can be quite dangerous. I think I will avoid
it whenever I can...especially since I've already written all my
overloaded operators for the task at hand.

-Matt
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