const/immutable member functions

[Simen kjaeraas]

Trass3r <un at known.com> wrote:

> class F
> {
> const Foo bar();
> }
>
> Isn't this ambiguous? "returns a const Foo object" vs. "is a const
> member function that returns a Foo object"?

Only to humans. const applies to everything after it, unless there
are parentheses. In this case, 'everything' is Foo bar();

I do agree it is ambiguous though, and should be disallowed, or at
very least, discouraged.

-- 
Simen