From: giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl   
      
      
      
   	What is the purpose of the explicit keyword?   
      
   	To tell the compiler that a certain constructor may not be used to 	   
   implicitly cast an expression to its class type.   
      
   	Foo a = 42;   
      
   	Compile-time error: can't convert 42 to an object of type Foo   
      
   What is implicit about that definition?  The type is explicitly given, and   
   the definition should be accepted IMHO.   
      
   Chris   
      
      
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