generalized lvalues

[Ziemowit Laski]

On 18 Nov 2004, at 16.40, Joe Buck wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:14:21PM -0800, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
>> Of course, since we are discussing a language extension, _we_ get to
>> decide how it interacts with C++ overloading.
>> For the same reason, Matt's assertion that the feature "breaks valid
>> C++ programs" is inherently contradictory,
>> since programs containing it cannot be valid. :-)
>
> You just completely ignored what I wrote.  Go back and read it again.
> Cast-as-lvalue breaks valid C++ programs.  Period.  It breaks programs
> that never assign to a cast.

You're right -- for some reason, I completely blanked out on the fact 
that the cast is still legal (!!!), and so that we're (more or less 
silently) changing the semantics of that cast.  My apologies...

Also, I realized that the lvalue casts that I desire would never be 
used in the scenario your example depicts; I'm really concerned about 
"assigning to a cast", as you put it.

--Zem