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From: bangrazi@ctron.com (Anthony Bangrazi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Read-only data access
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Date: 13 Jun 91 19:07:14 GMT
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Could someone please help me? I want to allow read-only access to private
data members, without having a method to return the value (thus avoiding the
parenthesis).


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class Z {
public:
    const int& z = &zP;
private:
    int zP;
}

int main ()
{
    Z* myZ = new Z;
    printf ("%d\n", myZ.z);
    delete myZ;
}

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Note no parenthesis on "myZ.z"
Also, since z is "const", one cannot "myZ.z = 4"


Thanks for an help.

Anthony Bangrazi
bangrazi@ctron.com