Re: Argument matching

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From: Scott Turner
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:08

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In article <1992Dec31.053242.3376@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes:
> Proposal: 
> 
> 1) for the purposes of computing the signature of a function,
> the symbols 'const', 'volatile' and any trailing '&' are ignored.

> 2) As usually, attempting to define two functions with the same
> signature results in a duplicate defintion.

The worst effect of this idea would be that

	void f(int&)
and	void f(const int&)

could not be overloaded.  This is useful and I don't think bad design.
--
Prescott K. Turner, Jr.
Liant Software Corp. (developers of LPI languages)
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