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This chapter covers how custom type conversions for an object can be defined. In the example below, there is a class called MyNum with a single integer field. With custom type conversions it is possible to allow integer types to be implicitly converted to this object's type.

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Olsson, M. (2013). Custom Conversions. In: C++ Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6278-7_21

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