C++ Class base return value overload function?

Ok, this I can do:

my_class p;

p = 2;

I can make that work, what I want is this to work:

my_class p;
int i;
p = 4;
i = p;

That's not my ultimate goal of course, I could just say i = 4. But I would like for the above to work. Is it possible without doing something like this:

i = p.value;

I'm not worried about losing the ability to copy the object easily,that's not important. I could just make a func, and another class type within the class to handle the copy:

my_class b;
my_class p;

b.acceptdata = p.dumpdata();

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jon.

Nevermind, I found out.

Just so you know, there are things called conversion operators as follows

int myclass::operator int(){

return myclass.myint;

}

will return an integer when your class is used as an integer. Nice.

found this all at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclang/html/_pluslang_overloaded_operators.asp

thanks,

Jon.