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Re: conversions between vectors

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:13:06PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Nope.  You can't assign a valarray<T1> to a valarray<T2> in C++, even
> if there's an implicit conversion from T1 to T2.

Not to mention in AltiVec terms, 

	vector char foo
	vector int bar

foo is a vector of 16 characters, and bar is a vector of 4 ints.
So we've changed sizes as well.

I think it makes sense to be able to cast the vectors (which 
valarray would _not_ allow, incidentally), but I do not think
it makes sense to allow assignment without casting.


r~
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