What Is The Explicit Specifier In Modern C++?
August 1, 2023
In modern C++, explicit-qualified conversion functions work in the same context as explicit-qualified constructors and produce diagnostics in the same contexts as constructors do. C++11, C++17, and C++20 standards have improvements in this explicit specifier. This is done in order to avoid situations when the compiler uncomplainingly accepts code that is not semantically correct. In this post, we…