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From: hitz@csi.uottawa.ca (Martin Hitz)
Subject: Re: Help needed in c++
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.161510.18266@csi.uottawa.ca>
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 16:15:10 GMT

In article <3257@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> marina@cs.hw.ac.uk (Marina Georgiadou) writes:
>class A{
>	virtual int f() const;
>};
>
>Does anybody know the meaning of this const postfix ??

It denotes the promise, that f() will not change *this 
(it's hidden argument).

Martin Hitz@csi.uottawa.ca