Re: Compiler error or? Microsoft VC++ v6.0

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From: Torstein Hansen (torsteinRemoveThis_at_hansen.as)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:34:22 GMT

"Frank Hickman" <fhickman_nosp@m_noblesoft.com> wrote in message
news:ltudncxV77EuG6_d4p2dnA@comcast.com...
> Because your passing an unsigned long the compiler can only assume
your
> passing a reference so it uses the constructor that uses a reference.
Since
> 0 is in effect null this works, 1 is not so it does not.
>
> --
> Frank

I'm still not completely satisfied that all type safety is blown on
constants that just happens to be zero..

Oh well..

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