[C++-sig] Re: Getting the pointer for a member operator

[Nicodemus]

Vladimir Sukhoy wrote:

>>Problem is that this is broken under MSVC.NET 2003. The compiler complains 
>>with:
>>
>I tried similar with .NET 2003 compiler - it works, and I cannot reproduce 
>this error! The full module code is:
>
><snip code>
>

Thanks for trying it Vladimir! Indeed the above code does work. Since 
the error message is pretty specific, I assumed the error was on that 
line. If I tried to post a reproductible test case, as I should, I would 
learn that the error only shows in the following code:

//----------------------------------------

#include <boost/python.hpp>
using namespace boost::python;

namespace operators
{
    struct C
    {
        operator int() const { return 1; }
        operator const char*() { return "C"; }
    };
}
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(_ace)
{
    class_< operators::C >("C", init< >())
        .def("__int__", &operators::C::operator int) // comment this line
        .def("__str__", &operators::C::operator const char*)
    ;
}

//----------------------------------------

If you comment the marked line, the code compiles fine. Otherwise, it 
gives this error:

op2.cpp(16) : error C2833: 'operator const' is not a recognized operator 
or type

Does anyone know what is going on?