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schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) writes:
|I understand your point of view though, and I think it would be nice
|if there was some construct in C++ to do what you want. I know some of
|my classes could use it. Maybe something like:
|
|class a { 
|  public: 
|    virtual& test() { 
|	// do some modification to the state of this object,
|	// then ...
|	return *this;
|	}
|};
|
|In otherwords, make the return type 'virtual' like functions. 

This is nice in that it uses an already key word.  However, this
would be too easily mixed up with people just forgetting to put
type names in their functions.  Rather than just

	virtual &method();

how about

	virtual class& method();

instead? "class" is already a keyword and it even sounds like what
it is -- a reference to the current "class".  But you're right,
this sounds like the syntax proposed for templates, so maybe they
will solve this problem without this changed syntax.

					Reid
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