While this is a clever hack, it's brittle (as the article points out), with too many cases where it doesn't work right. It's just not going to be maintainable.

While this is a clever hack, it's brittle (as the article points out), with too many cases where it doesn't work right. It's just not going to be maintainable. Overloading in C++ needs to be done sparingly so the compiler doesn't run into multiple possible conversions, which result in complex and confusing error messages.