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From: rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis)
Subject: Re: Read-only data access
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 15:04:52 GMT

Tim Budd <budd@fog.CS.ORST.EDU> writes:
|...I think some of the details are wrong (at least they don't work as
|planned using GNU 1.37).  The declaration needs to be int& const
|(reference to a constant), not const int & (constant reference).

Stephen Adams <sra@ecs.soton.ac.uk> writes:
|	class Z {
|	public:
|		int& const z;
 ...
|	};

The "const" goes in *front* of the "int".  What you're defining is a
constant reference to an int [a bit redundant, that] rather than a
reference to a constant int, which would be more like "const int &z".
See the ARM, section 8.4.3 on p 154, about halfway down.

					Reid
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