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Custom type conversions can be defined to allow an object to be constructed from or converted to another type. In the following example, there is a class called MyNum with a single integer field. With conversion constructors, it is possible to allow integer types to be implicitly converted to this object’s type.
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Olsson, M. (2018). Custom Conversions. In: C++17 Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3600-0_21
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