From: Lars Gullik Bjønnes (larsbj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-09 20:17:27
"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>> "Lucas Galfaso" <lgalfaso_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> Actually, type qualifier on the return type of member functions is
>>> meaningless (if they are not returned by referece.)
>>
>> Why? I've found them useful.
>
| Rvalues of built-in types are never cv-qualified, so when you write, for
| example,
That was built-in types.
There is a difference from that and stating that "type qualifier on
the return type of member functions is meaningless".
I was more thinking of using const to avoid modification of
temporaries. (f.ex. when returing std::string)
-- Lgb