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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Bear with me, my stupid question
Message-ID: <354@taumet.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 17:08:13 GMT
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grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy) writes:

|X X::operator +(X& rhs)
|{
|  // make a temporary copy of the lhs or rhs, withever is larger 
|  X temp(count > rhs.count ? this : rhs);
                              ^^^^
			      *this
|  // do stuff with temp
|  return temp;
|}

Use '*this' instead of 'this' where indicated.  An object of type T may
be freely used where one of type T& is expected, and vice versa.  Now
both sides of the ':' operator have equivalent types.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com