Ping: PATCH to generate error for address of cast

[Matt Austern]

On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 12:17 PM, Jason Merrill wrote:

> Please remove the static_cast from this testcase; I don't want to 
> support
> this extension with new-style casts.

I have no problem removing the static_cast from the
positive test case.  However, in the interests of
being as explicit as possible about just what this
extension does and doesn't do, I think that if we
decide it doesn't apply to new-style casts then we
should probably have the compiler issue an error
message.

(That's a general gripe: language specification is
hard, and I think that a lot of extensions are
underspecified.  We really shouldn't ever put in an
extension unless we're willing to do the work of
figuring out what it does in all circumstances.)

> Otherwise, the patch is OK.  It was
> corrupted by your mailer, though, so I can't apply it;

Sorry about that.  Would it help if I sent patches as
attachments instead, or is that contrary to mailing list
policy?

			--Matt