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va@styx.org.chemie.uni-frankfurt.de (Volker Apelt) wrote:
>
>Is the declaration of two member functions which differ only in their
>ctor-qualifiers valid c++?
>eg.
>
>class A {
>public:
>   T& elem(int n)const;
>   T& elem(int n);
>};

Not only is it valid, it is extremely useful.  See Scott Meyers' book 
"Effective C++" (and the sequel, "More Effective C++", due out this fall) for 
very readable and accessible treatments of this and many other issues.

>The April Working Paper says 
>8.4 [dcl.fct.def]
>5 A  cv-qualifier-seq can be part of a non-static member function decla
>  ration, non-static member function definition, or  pointer  to  member
>  function only; see _class.this_.  It is part of the function type.
>				    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Thanks in advance

I think you just quoted your own answer. :-)

Regards,

Herb


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