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From: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: const member functions ?
Summary: Supported in 2.0
Message-ID: <1065@hsfmsh.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 15:59:15 GMT
References: <6590205@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
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In article <6590205@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes:
> Is there a way to declare a member function const -- IE to tell the compiler
> that the member function does not change the value of this nor *this
> 
> ???

Release 2.0 supports the following: (according to Lippman's book)

	class x {
		...
	type	func() const {...};
	}

I don't know if it's supported in G++ as I haven't tried it yet.

--marc
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