TITLE: New keyword "explicit"


PROBLEM: joshua@oncomdis.on.ca (joshua), 13 Mar 95

In the January article of CUJ (pg.89) it says that there is a new 
keyword explicit.  I waited this long for them (or anyone) to tell
me what it does, and can wait no longer.  Can someone tell me what
the keyword "explicit" does?


RESPONSE: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)

On a single-argument constructor, it says that the constructor
does not act as a user-defined conversion, and so can only
be invoked explicitly, not implicitly.