Re: const function??

From: CBFalconer (cbfalconer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:50:16 GMT

Keith Thompson wrote:
> Jens.Toerring@physik.fu-berlin.de writes:
>> E. Robert Tisdale <E.Robert.Tisdale@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>>> franco ziade wrote:
>
>>>> what does this declaration mean?
>>>>
>>> class X {
>>> public:
>>>> void function_name(void) const { }
>>> };
>>>>
>>>> This means that the function is constant? what is the implication?
>>
>>> You are probably reading C++ code.
>>> It looks like a member function definition
>>> taken out of the context of the class definition.
>>
>> What's going on here? What Franco Ziade wrote was:
>>
>> || what does this declaration mean?
>> ||
>> || void function_name() const
>> || {}
>> ||
>> || This means that the function is constant? what is the implication?
>>
>> What you're "citing" has three lines that never were in the post by
>> Franco Ziade and of the rest you have "edited" one line. So why are
>> you (again) "citing" something that has never been posted?
>
> If you look carefully, you'll see that ERT correctly marked the lines
> he added. In this followup, the OP's line is marked with ">>>", and
> the added lines with ">>" (though the original line didn't have the
> "{ }" that ERT added to it). He could have been clearer about what
> he was doing, though.

Yes, I was ready to castigate also. However on NS 4.7x quoted
material is in a different typeface than new material, so things
stand out better. I guess ERT does so many trollish things that we
are overly ready to discover another. Every time he shows signs of
reforming he seems to fall off the wagon again. But this is not a
fall :-) 

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