Re: [cpp] Implementing structs: generic forwarders

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On 14 Mar 2002, Murray Cumming wrote:

> How is it helpful to put the operator= and cast operator in a member
> variable's class rather than the C++ class itself? Where did you get the
> name 'forwarder' from?

because we'd need operator= and the cast operator in the C struct and not
the C++ class.

I've pulled the term 'forwarder' from my... let's not get into that :)

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