Question

C++ has a feature (I cannot figure out the proper name of it), that automatically calls matching constructors of parameter types if the argument types are not the expected ones.

A very basic example of this is calling a function that expects a std::string with a const char* argument. The compiler will automatically generate code to invoke the appropriate std::string constructor.

I'm wondering, is it as bad for readability as I think it is?

Here's an example:

class Texture {
public:
    Texture(const std::string& imageFile);
};

class Renderer {
public:
    void Draw(const Texture& texture);
};

Renderer renderer;
std::string path = "foo.png";
renderer.Draw(path);

Is that just fine? Or does it go too far? If I shouldn't do it, can I somehow make Clang or GCC warn about it?

No correct solution

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