Re: Compiler chooses conv ctor - why?

Charles Wang[MSFT] wrote:
Hi Cezary,
Thank you for your explaining on this according to ISO standard. I
think that I understand your meaning. Your main concern should be
that at least the compiler should throw an warning to tell developers
this potential issue, right? Could you please give Microsoft feedback

Really, the compiler should adopt the behavior specified by the standard and
provide a command-line parameter to allow programs relying on the old
behavior to compile. (like was done with forscope).

This "it's ok to depart from the standard as long as we document it" is why
programmers 'round the world are fed up with Microsoft. That happened with
IE DHTML support and look at the mess that made, now IE can't even follow
the standard if Microsoft wants it to.


.

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