Returning this from a const member
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Sat Mar 20 17:18:34 PDT 2010
Robert Clipsham:
> Why is this?
It's not a hard question. This code compiles:
class Foo {
const(Foo) myFoo() const {
return this;
}
}
void main() {
auto f = new Foo;
}
It's just in a const function the "this" is const, so if you want to return it, then you have to use a "const Foo" type, because it's not a mutable Foo :-)
Bye,
bearophile
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