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C++ deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’

This is an error message you see whenever you have a situation like the following: char* pointer_to_nonconst = “string literal”; Why? Well, C and C++ differ in the type of the string literal. In C the type is array of char and in C++ it is constant array of char. In any case, you are … Read more

What does the explicit keyword mean?

The compiler is allowed to make one implicit conversion to resolve the parameters to a function. What this means is that the compiler can use constructors callable with a single parameter to convert from one type to another in order to get the right type for a parameter. Here’s an example class with a constructor … Read more