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In article <m820bbi5yc.fsf@slbh08.bln.sel.alcatel.de> prange@bln.sel.alcatel.de writes:
>
>I issued the command "g++ -Wall -ansi -c HTMLAppearance.cc" on the command 
>>line and received the following error from the compiler:
>>
>>	return type specification for constructor invalid
>>
>>for the line 	
>>
>>	HTMLAppearance:: HTMLAppearance( const String filename ) {    
>>
>
>This is actually fun to see _three_ people responding and not 
>seeing that the problem is on the follwing line ( which has been
>quoted also several times )
>
>HTMLAppearance:: HTMLAppearance( const String filename ) {  
>
>which should read: 
>
>HTMLAppearance::HTMLAppearance( const String filename ) {  

From what I can see, you have only removed a space.
Indeed, that makes no difference, or shouldn't, unless you
have a broken C++ compiler.  Something else _is_ wrong.
Since he defined his constructor outside the class,
more than likely he left off the semicolon after the closing
} of the class and hence it got taken as the return type of the ctor,
which is not allowed.  There are actually 2 errors then:
(1) A ctor cannot return a value
(2) A type cannot be defined when specifying a return type

- Greg
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