首先引用一段《ANSI/ISO C++Professional Programmer'sHandbook》中的解释:
explicit Constructors
A constructor that takes a single argument is, by default, an implicit conversion operator, which converts its argument to an object of its class (see also Chapter 3, "Operator Overloading"). Examine the following concrete example:
class string
{
private:
int size;
int capacity;
char *buff;
public:
string();
string(int size); // constructor and implicit conversion operator
string(const char *); // constructor and implicit conversion operator
~string();
};
Class string has three constructors: a default constructor, a constructor that takes int, and a constructor that constructs a string from const char *. The second constructor is used to create an empty string object with an initial preallocated buffer at the specified size. However, in the case of class string, the automatic conversion is dubious. Converting an int into a string object doesn't make sense, although this is exactly what this constructor does.
Consider the following:
int main()
{
string s = "hello"; //OK, convert a C-string into a string object
int ns = 0;
s = 1; // 1 oops, programmer intended to write ns = 1,
}
In the expression s= 1;, the programmer simply mistyped the name of the variable ns, typing s instead. Normally, the