Question

I have a template with this static cast operator:

operator Vector2<float>() const
{
    return Vector2<float>(x, y);
}

This implies to me that if I cast as a float, it will return a float variant of the class, even if x and y are integers from an integer variant. But apparently not so:

As a test:

Vector2<float>position=static_cast<float>(Vector2<int>(5,5));

I get the compiler error for *No matching conversion for static_cast from Vector2 to float*.

Yet, the conversion is specified above, is it not, as a static cast overload?

Answer 1

You should use it like this:

Vector2<float> position = static_cast<Vector2<float>>(Vector2<int>(5,5));

since the declaration specified a conversion to Vector2<float>, not a conversion to float.