Brian Rogoff wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Jean-Marc Alliot wrote:
> > Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > > My opinion with regard to overloading is that what is really
> > > problematic about overloading in C++ is the *combination* of
> > > overloading and implicit conversions.
> 
> I agree with Fergus on this. 

	This is not just a matter of opinion but mathematics.
There is a paper dealing with the interaction of generics
and implicit conversions which details conditions under which
both can coexist without ambiguity:

	Using Category Theory to Design Implicit Conversions
	and Generic Operators, John C  Reynolds, 
	Theoretical Aspects of Object-Oriented Programming,
	Gunter and Mitchell, MIT Press ISBN 0-262-07155-X


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